Ianus: Russia and China Have Never Been Friends of America OR the Western Democracies.

Submitted by LMcCarten (United States), Feb 3, 2007 at 14:02

And Russia is not a friend of its former territories, in addition to not being a friend of the United States. Thus when the US gave military to Caucasua nations it was because Russia would NOT do so on terms that Caucasus nations found agreeable. So if Russia finds US military support to these nations unpalatable it needs to face up to the reality that this is a result of its own policies and patronizing attitudes towards these countries. Armenia and Georgia both face serious problems with militant Islamic insurgency, if they cannot get reliable assistance from Russia without strings attached to it they as sovereign nations have the right to look elsewhere--and have.

An anti-American coalition that you mention as a future possiblity in fact ALREADY exists: Russia and China BOTH signed an anti-American treaty in 1989, in which the United States was cited as a mutual enemy and both countries immediately began drawing up policies to undermine the United States militarily and economically. They continue to work diligently on this strategic goal to this day.

Your comments to the effect that Americans are estranging and antagonizing are thus fiction; Americans and members of other western democracies are clearly being victimized: Russia and China are staging a bald-faced global power play and they have long been making use of Islamic terror as a tool to obtain the global power they crave. )See Clair Sterling's non-fiction book "The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terror"). Gordon Chang recently wrote that China fully intends to deploy nuclear first-strikes on America n territory to solidify its political aims; however, a Chinese military official two years ago was quoted as saying China would be destroying hundreds of American cities with nuclear weapons thereby erasing doubts about China's intentions.

As for India, it is doubful it will be participating in any islamic coalitions against America or anyone else. For the simple reason that islam has been a proverbial sword in its side for over one thousand years. Buddhism no longer in its birthplace for the simple reason that Muslim invaders obliterated it from the subcontinent; Hindus in India have fared little better with over 80 million Hindus murdered ver the centuries of Islam-perpetrated wars.

I doubt India (a desire) has any interest at all in seeing ideological dictatorships like China and Russia in the seat of global power or finding itself politically beholden to the Middle East which has been India's enemy for over 1000 years. India furthermore is experiencing a renaissance of Judeo-Christianity (which had been going on in India during the seventh century AD but was cut short by Islamic invasions). As Indians come to place value on human life over ideology it is increasingly unlikely that india will line up against the western democracies with ideological states to which human life has never meant squat.

The current situation, whatever the outcome, is NOT the doing of the United States. China, Russia, and Islam are hell-bent on global dominance. This would have been the case even if the United States was not a global power. But one thing is clear: neither China, Russia, nor Islam make for trustworthy alliances. And at t least this is dubious distinction is generally much less applicable to the United States and the western democracies.

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