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Why do American "anti elite" types think the Kremlin is OK?
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(08-08-2016, 12:42 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:
(08-07-2016, 04:00 PM)Anthony Wrote: I say the Kremlin is "OK" today for the same reason that it was "OK" during World War II:

Because it was/is the enemy of our enemy: Nazism then - and Islamo-Nazism now.

Islamic derived violence and inter-Islamic war are minor blips on the geopolitical radar screen.

It is, as it always has been, the large, highly industrialized, high tech major nations, who are the real players.

There are only two that truly rise up on my own radar screen of dangerous adversaries. And since 16-JUL-2001 they have been in a marriage. It may or may not be a marriage of convenience but it is a marriage nonetheless.
Can you explain your thinking?  What exactly would be the benefits that China or Russia could gain by making war with the US? 

While you are coming up with a response ask yourself this.  Do you think the US maintenance of an global military presence (i.e. acting at the world's policeman) is worth the cost to the US? 

If not, do you think China or Russia want to take this project on?  It makes no sense for them (see below).

You may not remember the Cold War, but the USSR did not really gain anything from maintaining their international presence.  Their intervention in Afghanistan destroyed them.  They did this in response to us doing it which we did because we were spooked by the success of the Maoist insurgents in 1949.  That is a Chinese civil war created the modern day American empire that Donald Trump is now* questioning because it makes no bloody financial sense.

*finally (sigh)
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