Russia's tricky in many aspects.
After WWII America got control of the Atlantic and Pacific. During the Cold War, of the Arctic and Indic (Alaska and Israel becoming states ).
I am not sure about the intentions of Russia regarding Iran. Even if the islamofascists dont succeed in their nuclear program, what about all the nuclear heads missing after the fall of the USSR?
If Russia and its peripheric CIS allied with Iran, that would form a continous block with access to the four oceans.
Also, both the Russian Cyrilic and the Persian Farsi alphabets are as much useful as the deseret one... lol. So they have something (to lose) in common during Globalization.
Let's not forget about the tremendous government-sponsored anti american propaganda that's still going on in these days.
And what about 'Yamantau'?
The coming (or already initiated) ''third'' (I cannot emphasize the '' enough ) world war has eurasiafrica as the target (arabs belong to an afroasian linguistic group) and Islam is almoast by definition the intend of cultural continentalization of Africa and Eurasia.
Now Hamas says the chechnya issue is an internal Russian confrontation. haha. That's double speech and could bring Russian Nationalism and Islamofascism toghether> nice prospect...
Russia as pro American-led globalization? hopefully but HARDLY.
Welcome, newbie. Your anti-Semitic slip is showing ...
Add China to the equasion and you have 80% of world production, 80% of world energy reserves, and 80% of the world's natural resources.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516559/posts?page=37#37 <- scroll down