http://news.yahoo.com/putin-orders-northern-fleet-full-alert-exercises-ria-073059816.html
and
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/japan-rising/
I have warned parents with children with large university debts to pay them off, or not to even start the debt process since 2008....
Why? The army is so understaffed that a conscription starting with debt forgiveness could be introduced here. I have written on this before on this blog as early as 2007, when someone who is now president was speaking about a draft.
I wish all my friends would have listened....