Weekend reading: Mushroom Talk Clouds Apartheid NPT Carcass. Lots of thought-provoking stuff in here. For example:

In the space of 12 months, Russia and China have managed to move the pieces on the geopolitical chess board of Eurasia away from what had been an overwhelming US strategic advantage, to the opposite, where the US is increasingly isolated. It's potentially the greatest strategic defeat for the US power projection of the post-World War II period.