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...know about the sad fate of victorious alliances in the past? The correct answer is this: The old lady may be 60, but she is not 
 only bouncy but also functional. Why else would so many nations try to court her? Give the nod to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldavia and Ukraine, and many of the good folks of those lands will be hopping on a plane to Brussels. Not only does nobody want to leave but France, which left NATO's integrated military command 43 years ago, has just now returned. In the past, France preferred being outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Soldiering On | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...officer for every two privates." The overall numbers of the armed forces will drop from 1.13 million to 1 million. The remaining soldiers, the reasoning goes, will have access to better and more up-to-date equipment. Supply and command problems were clearly evident in last August's Georgia war. There was a lack of coordination between air and ground forces as well as mismanagement of equipment. One famous anecdote from the war had a general borrowing a mobile phone from a journalist in order to call in commands to his troops. (See pictures from Russia's 2008 war with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medvedev Uses NATO Threat to Reform Military | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...song "Mamo," sung in a combination of Ukrainian and Russian. Some of the lyrics were written by an Estonian, the music was written by a Georgian and the song is performed by Prikhodko, who is Ukrainian. This combination horrifies Russian patriots, as Russia has had major political conflicts with Georgia, Estonia and Ukraine in the last two years. Prikhodko's producer Konstantin Meladze insists, however, that her song should inspire friendship between the four countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eurovision in Russia: Politics and Pop Music | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

Some people may find Rolcats offensive. (Sorry, Georgia!) Some people may find it stupid. Others may argue that pretending that your cat is trying to smuggle microfiche to Moscow is even more pathetic than pretending that it wants to eat a cheeseburger. Those people are probably spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Lolcats | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...Shalom Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953, in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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