notyou2 wrote:GoranZ, why are you in love with Russians? You seem infatuated with them. Is this a schoolboy crush?
I think that you are mistaking a lot... I'm only betting on the better team, and I'm not only betting on Russia

After the end of WW2 Europe(including Russia) was in ruins, the only country that profit from the war was US... Also US was the only country with Nuclear potentials... despite all that Russia managed to stay in the cold war race. Now US has advantage but that advantage is nothing compared to the one before the cold war. US is only strongly allayed with EU, but EU is union of weaklings. On the other hand China and India are two emerging world powers and they wont stay on side for very long time.
In my opinion the west is the one that wants collision with Russia, not other way around, in order to move its economy forward in time for much larger clash since it cant afford collision with 2 world powers atm. Its a question of time when China will join in the games to rule the world... I presume sometimes in the middle of this decade. Then the things will get very interesting, especially for EU.