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- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
However, if you are sitting in Russia and watching a regime that just started two land wars in Asia build what could even by a generous observer be mistaken for a first-strike capability right on your border...
... it's hard to blame you for becoming a little nervous.
The problem with the "no sane person would want to do that" line of reasoning is that that is also the reason the first world war didn't happen.
The further, more specific problem with that line of reasoning, in this context, is that the official reason for the facilities in question is not possible. So if you accept the notion that the Americans were building a missile defense system in Poland, then you are already operating under the assumption that the Americans are insane. Now we're just haggling over the flavor of insanity involved.
And really, it only looks like a system built to support a first-strike if you are ready to accept a Russian retaliatory second strike. And I see absolutely no reason why anyone would think in those terms. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you somewhere, because what you're saying is not making much sense to me. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
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