Greg Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association
(...)says the United States and Great Britain did a poor job of bringing Russia into the fold following the Cold War, and now Moscow appears to be on the wrong side of a new "cold war" led by China.
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And while he does not envision a return to the original U.S.-Russia Cold War scenario, Copley acknowledges what he describes as a "reshaping" of the world into a new cold war. "And the new cold war adversary will actually center more around China and Iran and North Korea than it will around Russia," he states. "We just don't want to force Russia to join the new cold war on the other side of the fence. China is a prime concern."
Copley says the great fear of the Russian leadership is the expansion of China -- and yet, he states, the Russians appear prepared to embrace Beijing.
Hmm... interesting. And I believe that this helps support what I've been saying about those nations for some time now, though I've ripped into Russia a bit more harshly than has Mr. Copley.
