And thus we remain at war; Yeltsin and the Beijing Olympics didn't change that, though it's definitely true Russia took a big hit in our little "first one to bankruptcy loses" escalation. We didn't come out of too well either, come to that; Detente has worked out very well for the country we and the Soviets sought to use against each other. For its leadership, anyway; kidnapped children in Chinese coal mines, or Argentines killed by Chinese toothpaste sweetened with antifreeze, might see it differently. Again, as I'm sure you're aware, the Korean Conflict has never ended; we have a ceasefire. So whether we want to be or not, whether anyone in the West chooses to recall the fact, we are at war. It's a little late to decide we don't have the stomach for it, or that we can't wage it because it threatens the Seoul citizenry we've been keeping out of prison labor camps since the early fifties. You think China's been propping up North Korea all this time because they have too much disposable income? It's a war being fought on many fronts, economic, diplomatic, strategic, even the Moon. Yeah, Cold War's really over and capitalism won because of globalism. And if China has to tell North Korea to nuke L.A., or bin Laden to ship us a ticking nuke, to ensure their global dominance, they will.

The conflict continues, still without quarter. Definitely something to consider while China sells or gives nuclear weapons to the most unstable, even openly anti-American, states, blocks all attempts to prevent their acquisition by terror states and absorbs ever more American debt, capital and industry.