Dividing Russia

America has been at war with Russia for nearly two decades; a grossly one-sided war in which the U.S. is quietly conquering more and more territory with the kind of tireless efficiency not seen since the days of the Golden Horde.

A lake disappeared in a Russian town east of Moscow this past May. And if the Reuters account of the vanishing lake is to be believed, some local residents blamed the disappearance on the evil Americans. The Western press loves stories like these -- it proves that even God has it in for the Russians. And with good reason: they're anti-American, and they're stubbornly backwards, so therefore, bad things naturally happen to them.