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Russia is getting rich on oil wealth and we are on a downward trajectory -- in debt, entangled in a money-draining, winless war in Afghanistan (and an even more expensive winless war in Iraq).
Russia doesn't have to support an occupational military in Eastern Europe anymore.
We support an occupational military in the Middle East and Central Asia.
In the USSR, you could be picked up off the street and taken to a gulag to be tortured or locked away in a psychiatric hospital.
In today's America, men who should be locked up in a psychiatric ward (like Dick Cheney) can have you plucked off the street and tortured and sent away to "outsourced" gulags in Cuba, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Democratic foreign countries are asking Russia for economic aid.
Take a good look. This is the Bush/Cheney legacy.
