What can $9B buy these days?
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 9:46AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: Saudis Pay 4.43 Billion Pounds for 72 Eurofighters, By Emmet Oliver and Massoud A. Derhally, Bloomberg, September 17, 2007

ARTICLE: Russia Buys Right to Restore Iraq For $9 billion, Kommersant, Sep. 20, 2007

Fascinating. Been saying for a while we should have/could have outsourced the reconstruction to New Cores like Russia, India, China.

Was bound to happen.

Scary to some, but to me a harbinger of future allies in our goal of shrinking the Gap.

(Thanks: Matthew Garcia)

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