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Originally Posted by KGB  is it any different than the Chinese flexing their muscles in Asia or the Japanese before them?
Or you could look at it from the Russian point of view (which historically been extremely xenophobic).....their former enemies & now pseudo friends are expanding their sphere of influence right up to their borders (to include land that was traditionally a part of Greater Russia)..... | No..except the Russians seem to have done it more often (in modern times, at any rate).
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Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
Spot Joins Mensa
by James "Kibo" Parry |