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Sort of the russian version of the munich security conference. it s called the valdi club. he was introduced to me, and he started to rail against the bush administration for pulling out of the abm treaty. and he said, you know, the fact that russia can make the united states vulnerable with its nuclear forces is what makes us a superpower. and you are trying to deny that capability to us. so he thinks in nuclear terms. he s obsessive, if you will, about russian nuclear capabilities, and when you think about it, russia is a country with a gross domestic product about the size of spain. there s nothing that makes russia a superpower other than its huge nuclear arsenal. and the second concern, though, is beyond putin is because russia s conventional forces are nowhere as strong as they were ....