The Russians, led by President Putin, have increasingly rattled the saber, opposing almost anything that America supports. Except for their nuclear arsenal, Russia is nearly toothless right now – but they are planning to change that by funneling their increasing oil wealth into their military. In 20 or 25 years, when Russia has burned through its oil wealth, it won’t matter much what they think or do. But in the interim oil money, coupled with a belligerent attitude, may mean trouble. Not in the sense of U.S. v. Russia on the physical battlefield; but a near continuous attempt by the Russians to thwart every U.S. positive act on the Eurasian continent. The Russian leadership still believes it’s a zero-sum game where any positive accrued on one side of the international ledger is a negative in the account of the other side.
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