Well the US is attempting to encircle Russia with US proxies, and for some reason the Russians aren't happy about that.

After all, we'd simply be delighted if the Russians or Chinese started signing defense pacts and basing forces in Canada and Mexico

Originally posted by deltaboy
The Russians already done it by selling weapons to Venezuela. Think of it as a retaliation for that.

Was the U.S. sponsored coup in Georgia and Ukraine a retaliation too? If so it must have been some type of preemptive retaliation, since Russia did not sell anything to Venezuela at that time. Venezuela is peanuts compared to what the U.S. is cooking in Central Asia and all around Russia.

U.S. is backing every willing dictator in the CIS countries, and is even organizing coups against the unwilling dictators (Uzbekistan). The reasons for this are two-forld - isolate Russia, and get as much energy-rich dictatorships under the belt as fast as possible. It's all good - until you start to consider the long-term consequences. All the crap that the U.S. has its hands in in Central Asia, will come back and bite it in the ass - hard. 20 years from now the U.S. will be choking on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan among others.

Kazakhstan has never been stable or predictable. That is why Russia is cautious in dealing with Nazarbayev, and is not too quick to sign deals with him. The entire country is under his firm control, and virtually all other political parties are closely allied with him. But his foundation is very shaky. This is another moronic move by the U.S., that cannot possibly turn out to be good in the long run.

Yes- Kazakhstan is rich with oil and natural gas. There is only one problem - how are you going to get that oil and gas out without transporting it through Russia? build another Caspian pipeline, further destabilizing the entire region and promising future conflicts?

But hey - if U.S. wants to shower its new "ally" with gifts and military equipment more power to it. It is just too fun to watch how the master plan miserably fails 10 or 20 years from now, and U.S. will have not 1 Iran to be concerned about, but 10 Iran-like rogue states.

Oh - and irritating Russia is hardly of any benefit either. Russia is quite able to cause irritation in return. Oh course when it does everyone will be yelling and crying about how evil Putin is, about dirty commies making a comeback, and about NWO hammering nails into your head. The hypocrisy is through the roof, but the U.S. public could not give a crap. It is just too funny to watch how the whole thing is playing out, and how the U.S. propaganda is masterfully handling the Public's opinion - Putin is evil, Putin wants to destroy us, Putin wants to bring back communism, Putin is a dictator, Putin wants to kill all Russia's neighbors. Seriously who is this bull# meant for? 5 year olds?