While the post contains some good points - for God's sake ! this is a Russian pointing out what's wrong with Western Civilization.
Please point out when Russia ever had it figured out better than us ?
Russia has always fought WITH U.S. in the end - so if another end is comming --- this article seems to really point out the enemy as, minorities and Islamic Idiocy, not the West.
In WWI deals were cut for the spoils of the Ottoman Empire before the "Great Game" was started. I'd bet there's some positioning going on right now.
Russia is one of the powers that want to destroy us. The article is written in Pravda, a KPRF controlled newssite.
In WWI deals were cut for the spoils of the Ottoman Empire before the "Great Game" was started. I'd bet there's some positioning going on right now.
Russia has never fought us directly, in the open, so to speak.
Instead, The USSR, and now Russia is content to let others do their bleeding for them. It would not be beyond the behaviour of the Soviet Union, (in the 'bad' old days?) to pit the forces of Islam and the Chinese against their old 'cold war' enemy.
Deniability exists should we prevail, plus the opportunity to pitch in "on our side" and share in the spoils of conquest.
Failing that, the mutual destruction of all potential adversaries by one another would leave Russia in a great position to take advantage of that weakness and establish global or nearly global hegemony.
I do not expect to see them in this fight directly, but in the background pulling strings.
I may be wrong, but unless they are directly threatened they will largely keep out of it, except to goad potential adversaries and facillitate their mutual animosities.
Putin is no stranger to Soviet era Strategy, he is 'ex' KGB.