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We can debate about whether or not Russia is getting turned off of America again, just to turn themselves back on (in terms of military progress) in the future, and I might really like the challenge, but as I recently viewed sometime eariler this week, North Korea really, really hates everything about us (Americans). Sure, the entire country as a whole doesn't warm too friendly to any nation, but from a young age, every child born in N. Korea is taught to hate the US, hate capitalism, and more or less, hate free thought. The conditions there are so beyond our own scope of mind because it's not a free nation, and there is basically a military-instituted "no enter / no leave" policy for all inhabitants, unless you are one of the small elite class that sill has ties there.
I knew, ignorantly, some facts about Kim Jong Il ran his country through many levels of a dictatorship, but until now, I didn't realize how bad it had gotten, and still endures. If I were to rank the nations of which could possibly rise to such an arrogant level, with enough capital and determination to start a second Cold War show of supremacy / arms rae without appeal, I'd rank it a close one-two with China first, N. Korea second (the US owes quite a sum of billions of dollars to the Chinese already, and they have about a billion more working laborers than N. Korea, but on the flip side, their nation as a whole is ambivalent towards the US as a good/bad distant land). I'll also throw in Russia third, and a coalition of Iran / Saudi Arabia and a few other neighboring nations who might want to join in, just to be rid of the American hand of influence that has been in their domain for decades, since before the first Gulf War fully escalated.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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