One Reason Why the Russians Think They Have Us By the Balls

Without the Russians, we will not be able to fly to the International Space Station for at least five years.

(Another good decision by Owwrr Leedurr, the Tsar of the Baboons)

So unless we are going to scrap the ISS over the War for South Ossetia, all of the breast-beating by the neocons is just meaningless bluster. Which the Russians know, of course.