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Let me ask you a question. If you were Russia, moved toward a Republic which we said we wanted them to do for decades, then saw us court it's evil twin sister and basicly ignore Russia, what would your gutt response be? I think we have fu__ed up so badly that I don't believe I blame Putin much at all.

Putin's current position is that the UN is responsible for dealing with rogue nation-states but when his nation is threatened. However, this doesn't obtain when the threatened nation-state is Russia, hence his war with Chechnya.

Hypocrisy.

With respect Doughty One,
Stop thinking that a serious nation's foreign policy is based upon gut responses. Its based upon long-term planning and deceiving your enemy.
The Russian government/FSB/GRU are the ultimate deceivers and the United States is the enemy they are deceiving.
The "end of the Cold War" was not a surrender but simply a strategic retreat, albeit a massive one, designed to deceive Russia's enemies. Her enemies are now lining up in front of the chopping block.
Regarding your comment about the US courting Russia's "evil twin" I presume you mean China (I think).....
Um....how can I put this politely but.....Russia and China ARE ALLIES!!!!!! :) Please understand this....Russia has sold China literally tons and tons and tons of ADVANCED weaponry over the last at least 10 years....Putin and Jiang and the ministers have met many times and they signed a treaty of mutual friendship in July 2001 declaring that they were going to "End the Uni-Polar World Order".....now what nation might that be directed at???? Oh boy....I don't know.....let me see.....
but before I do that let me look into Putin's eyes one more time.....Oh!!!! I SEE THE LIGHT!!!! RUSSIA IS OUR ALLY!!!!!....
Respectfully, John.

Well D-1, if they haven't seen a difference with this new administration they're missing quite a lot. Dubya can't change everything overnight, but he's doing a lot in the 2 years he's been in as far as moving away from China and toward Russia. But Russia doing this is going to bring that to a halt. Shame, I really wanted us to get completely away from China.