Thread: Cold War 2 ???
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Old 22nd September 2008
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I do think that conflicts between the US and Russia will be increasing. Russia was humiliated after the breakup of the USSR, and now is regaining its strength because of natural gas and oil. It has shown that it will not hesitate to use that as a foreign policy tool. Germany, Italy and California are very dependent on Russian gas, so the threat is real.

Russia also has $500 billion in the bank, and it will use it to further its interests. Those interests do not align that well with the interests of the EU or the US. So of course it is backing Iran and Venezuela -- the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Mitigating some of this is China, who has many ethnic Chinese in eastern Russia.

We'll have to see if things reach the state of another cold war. The world is a bit different now that China and India are much more powerful. In my opinion, the place to watch is the Ukraine.
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