Michael,

 You realize I'm also quite limited in what I can discuss.

 All I can say about this present war, along the veins you mentioned, is that there are three tiers, the bottom of which is the war on terrorism and their sponsoring host nations.

 Realize that a nation is not necessarily a monolith, particularly one with an elite ruling class, such as China and Russia.  One part can be sincere and helpful, even in the war on the terrorists, and the other part may actually be sneaking supplies and weapons to help the terrorists, etc.

 The top tier is secret maneuvering by those controlling cliques in such nations possessing the great superweapons, and scheming to "bleed the U.S. dragon" to the point where it will be safe to strike and destroy it.

 So you have the bottom tier, which is the war we have declared, and you have the middle tier, consisting of China and Russia and others, and you have the upper tier consisting of cliques in China, Russia, and other nations as well.

 When you account all of it, it is really WW III, and we are going to take some very heavy casualties -- more than we have taken in all the wars in our previous history.

 Best wishes,

 Tom Bearden

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