On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:46:02 -0700 (PDT), Rob Arndt
wrote:

This is only news if the West chooses to make it news; otherwise, it
is really nothing extraordinary, nor will it bring back the Cold
War...

The Cold War is over and is as much a part of history as the American
Civil War.

What you see now is a resurgence of Russian Nationalism and a new
round of the The Great Game. If more prople studied history they
would know what they are looking at.