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The Russian Meltdown |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Herbert J. Ellison |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,247 Words, 15,104 Characters |
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Since 1989, however, the Bear has been buffeted and battered into a whimpering, cowering cub of its former self.
But this image holds true only up to a point. Though the Soviet Union has devolved into the smaller and weaker Russia, having been shorn of its outlying republics and forced to vastly shrink its military, its claws and teeth remain a lurking problem for the United States and the free world. For example:
l It still bristles with nuclear warheads--enough of them to annihilate the world.
l The bomb-grade isotopes it holds are a terrorist's dream.
l The weapons expertise of its underpaid scientists excites the greed of every truculent and rogue nation.
l Its diplomatic might continues unabated through its embassy network, its permanent seat on the UN Security Council,...
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... build a new generation of Topol-M ballistic missiles it does not need. Such leadership, combined with the inability of the government to provide a credible crisis economic program, is ample reason for deep concern about Russia's future.
The source of the Russian conundrum remains the continuing obstruction of needed reform by the ideological and institutional legacy of the communist past.
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