[Alberta's Child]

Russia is no less "expansionist" than the U.S. They just do it in the open.

The biggest blunder the U.S. has made in foreign policy matters over the last 35 years is that we have effectively turned Russia from a European nation into an Asian one. This was entirely unnecessary and cannot possibly be justified.

[buwaya]

The US has turned from a foreign asset owner to an attractor of FDI (foreign direct investment). The US is not an imperial power in any economic sense, its got the most open import and investment market on earth. The US makes rather little from its international investments. An it is piss poor at defending such investments btw., as every state that has nationalized US investments knows very well.

Being a host for FDI is a very long standing condition for the US. Net capital flows from abroad, mainly Britain and the rest of Europe, was always massively inwards, foreigners investing in US property and companies, pre-1914, and this resumed @ in the 1970’s.

[freeandfreezing]

we have effectively turned Russia from a European nation into an Asian one...

Is that why Russia was allied with North Vietnam during the Vietnam war? Were they somehow "European" and allied with the French?

Russia has been allies with the communists in Asia since the communist takeover of China. They were allies with the North Koreans 70 years ago.

[alexander_busek]

The biggest blunder the U.S. has made in foreign policy matters over the last 35 years is that we have effectively turned Russia from a European nation into an Asian one.

Yeah, the U.S. is so insidious and powerful, we go around changing the ethnic make-up, political DNA, and geopolitical goals of other nuclear powers all the time!

We're just that OP ("overpowered")!

Regards,