Of course the Russians are rebuilding.. Of course they are as strong as they once were. At the time of the USSR's collapse, a top Soviet general promised that by 2010, it would be reformed with more strength than at the height of the Cold War. Russia is certainly biding it's time.. Waiting for that one day when America turns it's back.

America will never, and I mean NEVER, turn its back on Russia any more than Russia would turn its back on the USA. America still has nukes trained on Russia. Do you really think that the USA is not watching Russia very closely? We are, and will never let up. To think that we are just ignoring russia andd allowing them to build back up in a manner oblivious to America is a bad assumption.

The soviets lost, bottom line, any rebuilding russia does will be relative to a USA too stroong for them to catch up with. Don't forget, America is still growing too.

the 2nd article states that russia's nuclear arsenal is the world's largest. This is absolutely wrong. The US has many more nuclear warheads than russia, period. It claims that the TOPOL-M ICBM's are more sophistcated that anything we have? Hardly. These are merely sensationalized, agenda-serving articles. Russia has lost the cold war, bottom line, and to think that they can win a hot-war with the US is suicide. A nuclear war between the US and russia will destoy the earth many times over. Thinking that they can "win" an all-out thermonulear war with the US is the kind of thinking that destroyed them in the 1st place. C'mon, get serious.

Compare-Russia 40 000 warheads vs USA 11 000. Do the Maths. And Russians are not the only propaganda, manipulating masters-look at a few American Hollywood movies, which just keep saying that USA is beeter than the barbarians

Where are you getting your 40,000 and 11,000 figures? Last I heard it was more like 3-4,000 each.

Numerous websites on Russian nuclear forces. Just browse around, can't remember the actual sites.

Russia doesn't need hollywood to make them look bad... just stalin. Anyway, the number of warheads doesn't matter, both countries could destroy the earth 100 times, so it academic. I just think these articles are sensationalized paranoia.

Russia grows because it has growing capacity, America has basically reached its domestic carrying capacity limit. America cannot really "check" Russia. You can't legitimately stop them from coming back...no cause to slap sanctions on them or what-not because they are an "ally". All I know is this: When Russia comes back, Chechenya will have been subjugated. When that happens...we'll know it's soon.

That is some scary in those articles. "If china and russia became allies they could start a war with the US tomorrow" thats freaky