As that arsenal was reduced, Russia's importance would surely shrink too.
That number will surely shrink further as GM implements its plans to close down another half-a-dozen factories and sack another 20,000 workers.
To add insult to injury, Russian budget revenues, half of which come from oil and gas, will suffer greatly, and Gazprom, the state-run gas monopolist and cash cow for the Russian ruling elite, will surely shrink.
Ironically this may actually be good for existing tech powerhouses, as those immigrants who are willing to come to America — a number which has surely shrunk considerably in the last month — will want to go to demonstrably pro-immigrant locales like California, New York, and Boston … meaning the best tech talent will get even more concentrated in those places.
Make no mistake: there is a clear correlation between state secrecy and the rule of law -- as one grows, the other surely shrinks.
But what about global warming, which, if it can shrink the arctic glaciers, will surely reduce the demand for a winter coat?
Surely not to their shrinking bastions in Appalachia and the Deep South, among the poorest states in the country, and precisely those most dependent on federal money.
With a direct relationship between teacher quality and student achievement, the fact that our teacher pool is shrinking will surely undermine other attempts, policy-wise or grassroots, to realize positive reform in education.
It's now down to about 4,000 companies, and given its steep downward trend will surely continue to shrink.
