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has deeply rooted sense of a special historic mission (that notion is there for already several
centuries – among its intellectuals and enhanced elites, probably well before the US has even
appeared as a political entity in the first place). Additionally and tellingly, Moscow possesses
the world’s largest gold reserves (on surface and underground; in mines and its treasury bars);
for decades, it masters its own GPS system and the most credible outer space delivery systems
(including the only remaining working connection with the ISS), and has an elaborate turn-
key-ready alternative internet, too.

Finally, as the US Council of Foreign Relations’ Thomas Graham fairly admits: “with the
exception of China, no country affects more issues of strategic and economic importance to the
US than Russia. And no other country, it must be said, is capable of destroying the US in 30
minutes.”

Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarević,
Vienna, 20 11 2020

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