Good points JR
First: Buy some Christmas silver and gold if you can
Secondly, the Russians are not our friends. As a people they are great, but as with anything, their leaders make them something else. With the meltdown that the oil prices are having on the rusky economy, they will work on their other market: Arms sales
There is one very prized weapon who a lot of folks have wanted for a very long time. Russians have them, others want them however lack the ability to develop. Know what I'm talking about?
The Arab spring architects want a caliphate...a super Muslim country. A combination of all local countries into one really big country, a caliphate devoted to everything musloid. And for the purposes of coming against Israel. Those fools think they can win a war against Israel, whereas we know the Jewish nation is protected by God himself.
No matter how you write that scenario, it's bad for the world and for us. Russia selling a nuke or two for some really big bucks starts the whole thing off. So these are not the best of times, and a very good time to collect more silver that we will need to bargain and trade with when the dollar collapses, possibly as a result as a localized and expanding limited nuclear war in the Mideast.