I was aware of the predictable way that people like yourself would likely react to it and that amused me. That doesn't make the article unimportant.
US citizens and others would do well study the collapse of the Soviet Union and how Russians survived it.
From intro to:
'
Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century'
By Dmitry Orlov
"...we should emphasize one major difference between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution which now confronts [the US]. Russia was able to survive the collapse and stage a comeback because it was largely a political and economic collapse. Russia still had a rich resource base, and most importantly vast energy reserves. Moreover, it was a regional collapse; there was a healthy world outside of Russia to which it could turn for aid, albeit at an exploitive price. Following the global peak of oil and the worldwide, irreversible decline in energy production, there will be little left on which to stage a comeback. "
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/060105_soviet_lessons.shtml
Guess again.