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Saw on one of the news channels Putin is increasing defense spending by 85% through 2015 for more airfields, tanks, missiles, etc. Maybe he has accumulated enough power he feels he can ramp up his military regardless of the cost to the civilian population. With China becoming a major military player, the U.S. probably won't have the resources to do a repeat of ramping up military spending and bankrupting Putin trying to keep up.
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Um, US military spending is $640BN, and Russian is $88BN . . . and US budget deficit is shrinking very fast while Russia's is ballooning . . .