Hey, remember that thing called nuclear fallout? Yeah... -_-

I already mentioned India and Pakistan in passing - it's just that India and China are taking a rather passive foreign stance right now. You don't really know what they'll do, especially China. As to getting the nuke over the border... you obviously haven't heard about Russia's thousands of nuclear warheads and a ton of missiles to carry them to boot. I'm pretty sure that a few Topol-M and, in a few years, the currently-tested Bulava missiles will be able to bypass pretty much all barriers. It's very hard to defend against a well-designed missile carrying a nuclear warhead, and the US doesn't have the capability yet. Even the interceptor missiles, such as those to be stationed in Poland, are rather ineffective - they work by predicting where the missile will be based on angle, speed, etc. Topol-M and Bulava can change direction in flight (probably not 90 degrees in a few seconds, but certainly enough) and deploy decoys.

The nice thing is, I was under the impression that the FOAB, a Russian thermobaric bomb that matches a small nuclear weapon in power, was going to be attached to a missile so it can now destroy you wherever you live without starting a nuclear war. Well, nice from my perspective - nasty Americans. I don't think that technology is functional yet, though. The US is doing something similar - key word trident.

From a nuclear superpower, no one's safe.

And, yeah, Matt... you might've heard about the nasty side-effects of nuclear weapons.

I'd also like to point out that Russia doesn't really have a large financial crisis - just a probably temporary stock market crisis. There's nothing fundamentally wrong in Russia as there is in the US - no companies suddenly collapsing, etc. Additionally, Russia has the 3rd largest financial reserves (piggybank money) at $500 billion after China (with 1.8 trillion $$) and India. That allows it to prevent these sorts of crashes by lending money to banks and all that. The US, at $9.7 trillion in debt (Most countries have both debt and reserves - however, the US's debt is huge compared to its reserves right now), can't really afford to pump more and more money into banks.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/09/19/russia.stock.exchange.ap/index.html

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If WWIII happens, I'm going to be the first to die. Russians wont wait a single second to annahilate the freedom loving, pansy Baltic States. They've been wanting to control us since like the 12th century.

They did control you for a decent while. If WWIII happens, I don't think Russia will be the aggressor. It doesn't have the military power to stand up to the US and Europe while on the offensive. Not yet, anyway. .

They have nukes.

Why would Russia nuke the Baltic states? My point is that they won't start a fight because the Russian conventional military is rather outdated (though, I'll point out that it's still #2 according to most sources). It won't start the fight, so no one gets nuked. And if a fight WOULD get started, Russia does, I think, have enough conventional firepower to make it that far. You're in Russia's backyard. They can take the backyard before anyone notices. No nukes there either.

God bless 'merica.

Deerwhale will bring the beginning AND the end of WWIII.

Aww come on, you can even see the grafted parts...