It seems as if our recent foreign policy doctrine is based not on peace which benefits everyone, but upon instigating and maintaining constant tensions which prevent any other country from gaining "too much" power. Why else would the United States care who influences whom in the backwaters of Eastern Europe? Why else would the United States bankrupt itself by taking a role (as sugar daddy if not actually shooting) in nearly every dispute around the world? Cui bono? Who benefits from this constant tension? And how?