Acidus wrote:
] Did I wake up in 1972? I wonder why he is rattling his sabre.
] Coupled with the recent consolidation of government and
] Putin's roll-back of a representative goverment, this is
] troublesome.

Oh come on.. The Cold War was so much better then the War on Terror and you know it.. Putin wants the good times back, and so do I. How much Bin Laden have you seen on TV lately? Not too much. Rather, not enough.. This man can't deliver! We could have Putin on the TV weekly saying he would bury us! This man, if nothing else, knows how to run a show. Remember the press conference at the high school when he was last down at the Texas Ranch? That was comedy! He is versatile. Perfect villain. I could see him launching a nuclear attack on an allied country, but I still feel as if I could sit down and have some Vodka with the man.

How many good terrorism moves have you seen lately? Easy answer for this: none. That Michael Moore character is boring. He is no John Candy. Sure, Black Hawk Down was a real thrill ride.. But frankly, the whole Die Hard trilogy is still tops, and all these were made before "September the 11th". Is there a new Rambo for this millennium? No. What's James Bond up to? The Arab that loved me? No. Spies like Us even out does the current Hollywood offerings in the same geographic regions we are dealing with today! Iron Eagle too! There sure as hell isn't anything on the level of Red Dawn coming our way.. No more Red October.. No more Firefox.. No more War Games!

Iraq might produce some good movies given some time.. Three Kings wasn't bad. But I don't expect what we got out of Vietnam. Again, a Cold War proxy conflict.

Face it, you need a superpower for good entertainment. We _need_ Russia to get their shit together. It could really work out! Some healthy tension between us would be a good thing. The companies would like it better this way.

RE: Putin: Russia testing new Nuke missiles