Why Is Moscow Risking a New Cold War?

[larrymeyer]

A good read

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...562073,00.html

[Brick]

Because they now have lots of petroleum backed Rubles that (they believe) gives them the possibility of winning.

[Pector55]

Incredible read. I keep wondering if WWIII will be more of an "Energy War." There are so many different relationships between nations with oil or those that desperately need it.

[XD45]

Atleast if obama gets in it won't be a cold war, we will just sell them all of our weapons and call it a day.

[Pector55]

Atleast if obama gets in it won't be a cold war, we will just sell them all of our weapons and call it a day.

Well, producing weapons is one of the few things we are still damn good at. If it drives an arms race between Russia and China than so be it. We have all seen that the cold wars drive up debt and hurts the economies of the participants so we could profit, boost our GDP, and secure some oil by selling arms to Russia. If we can do that without Obama being in office, it won't be so bad. At least there will be no surprises. We can simply sell them some of our kinda cool stuff which we know how to defeat.

[ALS]

They have bigger problems then getting into another cold war.
Population of CIS is about 140 million. Their population is declining somewhere between 750K to 900K people each year.
By 2050 the CIS will have less than 100 million people living in the old
Soviet Union.

[paul]

I did a google search, but I can't figure out what CIS stands for, little help?

[Jackal]

In my opinion the cold war never ended.

There were players and now some of the players have changed. Russia now is controlled centrally, like it was before, but under the guise of "democracy." And other west-happy phrases.

But the Russian empire was not obliterated. It went into deep recession, if you will, politically, economically, militarily, and the culture went through transformation as well.

But now the players have come back to the game after a regroup. The cold war or its hot counterpart will not end until one country no longer exists. If I am wrong, please provide an explanation as to how apposing forces can cease to appose each other if they are both still active....

World wars with draftees are over. Its a financial game now.

[LittleRedToyota]

I did a google search, but I can't figure out what CIS stands for, little help?

Commonwealth of Independent States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonw...pendent_States