Is this like "Russian troops are moving out of Georgia"?

Putin's deputy recently stated that Russia won't attack their neighbors. Oh, and that it has no claim over its previous sattellites.

I'll believe that when I believe that the government is the best agency to do anything underbudget, on time, or with any type of efficiency.

Actually, on second though, I'm willing to believe that they mean what they say, for now. I think they'd rather mess with us in our own back yard. They are, and have been for a while, selling arms to Venezuela, a nation hostile to us, in a bid to use Chavez as a puppet, and Venezuela as a proxy to keep some safe distance between their poor troops and equipment and us, since we have more than just an edge on them in quality.

Unfortunately for us, their military does outnumber ours, and so does their political will to use that military. As Stalin said, and Hitler learned, "Quantity has a quality all of its own." Once they build up their confidence a bit, I look for an actual, full-on attack, either against our troops overseas, or actually against us, here at home.

I'm sure they've already noticed we don't really have the political will to stand up to them.