[RusIvan]

The Russian people and Russia would have been much better off, both politically and economically, if they had taken the hand of the US in friendship, which Bush offered them.+++

What does it mean? To follow all the enterprises US will engage like Britain does?
I see Britain lost her own opinion now. Russia doesn't.

US can't stand that Russia may think differently. You ready to discard your old friends for any disagreements. Look Turkey.

I say it is not friendship it is cliency.

[Dog Gone]

We weren't asking for Russia to be the ally that Britain is. We didn't expect you to send troops like Australia or Poland.

We don't consider any of those countries to be client states, by the way.

However, we did think that we shared a common desire to defeat muslim attacks. Chechnya comes to mind.

We didn't think Russia would work against us in our efforts to rid the world of its cruelest despot. We thought you might support that, since you now believe in democracy and all that. It seems we were wrong.

[VRWC_minion]

You ready to discard your old friends for any disagreements

Only when they stab your back.

[FairOpinion]

"US can't stand that Russia may think differently. "

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Yes, "differently", as in proving to be our ENEMY, clandastinely fighting against us, through other government's who unknowingly or knowingly are becoming puppets of Russia.

Russia was bent on world domination, hence the Soviet Union, the East European countries under their control and increasing influence in S. America, etc. But the US stopped them and the house of cards collapsed.

And instead of taking its place in a Democratic international community, as it appeared to do, Russia continued its fight against us and for world domination, by contolling and supporting the Saddam regime, to take control of the ME and the world's oil supply.
Russia have a lot of oil of their own, plus control of the ME, would have put the entire world at Russia's mercy.