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Are Failed Nations a greater threat to us then stable ones?
Ronin:
--- Quote from: Tom on November 15, 2009, 01:33:51 AM ---China wanting to collect our debt if really a bad reason for war. It would be like destroying gold.
But Russia seems to be on our bad side, they say that they are willing to launch nukes.
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There's tons of reasons why the US and Russia still haven't seen each other on eye to eye terms. We support and train the military of Georgia and other smaller Baltic countries that traditionally Russia has seen as their obligation to aid (Including backing Kosovo's independence from Serbia). Also the whole creation of anti-ballistic missile emplacements in Eastern Europe really pushed Russia's buttons. Russia doesn't want to fall off the global map even as they sell off former assets of the Soviet Union (armor, supplies, munitions (legally and illegally)). They want to continue to be relevant and at the same time hold onto Russian interests.
Most of Western Europe wants to get out of Russia's oil grasp and move to alternate power sources (one problem is that 99.9% of cars today require gas from either Norway or Russia). Russia's economy is basically held up by oil, and to take their business away would really impact the country.