re: Why the sudden fear that we may be on the same side as the Russians?

We hate Russia because they were commies during the second world war and we were told that that shite was going to spread across the globe like wildfire...of course were also told in the same breath that it was a terrible system of economics and would inevitably fail of its own weight...which of course it did.


We need to hate russia though so we can justify spending more than the next 20 some odd countries combined on the military. Selling the American people on the idea that China is a real threat is tough seeing as how most of us can't be bothered to read an entire bumpersticker let alone a newspaper article and no one is sending us facebook articles about how china is going to get us all....

Russia is not a real ally but they also do not have to be an enemy either....they aren't as much like us as the rest of Europe mainly because a huge portion of Russia is Asian and not Europe at all...and as such we are never going to be as close to them as we are Germany....but they are easier to get along with than the Chinese if they ever decide to be assholes....

Finally I think we should encourage Russia to take on the middle east. We have oil here we don't necessarily need it as badly as Europe does....and the world would be a much better place if Europe was actually paying the true cost of their oil instead of relying on us to keep the spigot flowing for them....and, most importantly, Russia can become the great devil to the idiots in the middle east!!!! Nothing like being bogged down in a bunch of unwinnable wars to keep you occupied!