[G8 Diplomat]

The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, called on Russia to challenge America's superpower status

You wanna start the Cold War over again? Russia lost once, remember? You're asking for your own defeat. If everyone hates America, fine, we'll stop supplying food and trading with the world and then when everything goes down the drain they'll have no one to blame but their own miserable selves.

[Aussie123]

I Don’t think another Cold War would be such a good idea at this time mate. Consider the changes with Russia this time around compared to the old and corrupt former Communist USSR.

The old USSR was a socialist backward economy country and could not afford to compete with the US when it came down to monetary wealth.

Now Russia has a booming resourse driven economy on the back of huge resourse prices in Oil, gas and Gold. Its foreign debt is non-existant as a result and it has the largest natural mineral resources in the world. With time Russia will get stronger and stronger and as a result more assertive on the foreign policy front.

The US is now over-extended on the foreign policy front and pouring billions per month on foreign wars. This is heating the Economy and causing pressures on the US dollar. More spending on a Cold war type scenario will increase inflation in the economy and hence interest rates which will increase hardship to the general populace.

At the moment the US cant afford a Cold War with Russia unless it cuts its losses in Iraq and bases around the world. If it did get into a cold war with Russia , their will be only one winner this time and it wont be the US.