Cold War Sequel Coming Soon?

When the Berlin wall was taken down, and the Communist USSR apparently self-destructed, and the Communist Country became Russia , a country of 141.5 million people, 9 time zones and 17million square kilometrs of land mass. This country rich in mineral resources, and now not only indepndent of OPEC for petroleum, is a supplier of gas to Communist China. The economy which was declared bankreupt in the early 1990 has steadily increased since 1998 to the point where Russian President Putin has decided it is time to increase the military budget 40%, by 2.5 billion dollars in 2007.
This increase in military spending will include everything from fighter planes to new Topol -M ( SS-27s) with a range of 6200 miles and the capability to evade all known present anti-missle system in our known arsenal. They presently have 42 similar missles strategicly in place.
Russia defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has publicly stated that "Russia doesn't rule out the use of nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive strike anywhere in the world if National interest demands it".
Since Russsia has no Ecologist holding the government back as we do here in the U.S. they have developed oil independence. This allows them to stockpile all the oil a hot war would require while at the same time exporting to countries of their choice oil products for cash to run their economy. We have no such luxury thanks to the "chicken-livered"politicians who have allowed the Ecologist to stop not only the drilling for oil in remote Anwar and off shore, but has failed to allow a new refinery to be built in over 25 years!
We are good at constantly making our passenger cars smaller and our trucks larger. Resulting in the killing of over 40,000 people a year on the highways. But we can't be energy self sufficient, and their is no way to fight a war without large stores of oil.
President Putin proudly demonstrated the operating principle of the new nuclear missles to previous president of France Chirac.
This places Russia in a position to start another cold war over any counrty the U.S. has a strategic interest in, such as Iran, Iraq or any far East Country. Formosa being one place that China has coveted its' take over for many years. Or how about Korea revisited!
None of this will appear on our television or in our newspapers. You can bet the farm on that.