tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27932062.post592628806637096292..comments2007-11-15T10:24:02.681ZCentre for European Reformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06815454225955436329noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27932062.post-6014427346780124512007-11-14T17:24:00.000Z2007-11-14T17:24:00.000ZRussia, can you blame them for having suspicions and making accusations. Just look around its borders, i bet they started to feel encircled. The big problem is that unipolar vision of Cheney/Bush, unipolarism also triggers the problem of Mackinders heartland that the world has faced for a hundred years now. I think Putin felt a need to use their huge energy resources as a lever to secure a more viable geopolitical position. Brzezinski revealed in a New York Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Affairs article 1997: <I>What happens with the distribution of power on the Eurasian landmass will be of decisive importance to America`s global primacy</I>. It is quite natural Russia acts knowing this and sees neighbouring countries becoming NATO members, it scares them. Scared bears usually become dangerous, just as scared people do. The other union of states, the american, would probably have acted even more suspicous, agressive and even protectionistic if the oppisite where true; a unipolaristic Russia with friends encircling those american states. The US must stop its reckless foreign policy, it can only lead to something very nasty, especially taking into account the world currency freeride that could end if it goes just a little too far. I think the globe soon will be fed up about that freeride. <BR/><BR/>//steelneckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com