[BIRD33]

100 years ago you were still struggling to get the railroad to cross the entire country.

So far it's not in the interest of anybody not to have a general and good economical development of the ex-urss satellites, from EU point of view or Russian's one.Europe because it develops there and Russia because they sell them (and europe) a ton of gas and oil.

As for your growth most of it was due on the fact that your debt is libelled in your currency so nobody had a real interest in having the $ going down the sink because it would means that the would just have a bunch of useless paper.

Don't forget that prior WWII america wasn't that much of a superstate. it's after WWII and the Europe having to rebuild entirely that it leaved room for russia and you to play along.

100 years ago we were reaping the benefits of the industrial revolution which we started and enabled you to be more than a goat herder today.

So without WWII we wouldnt have been the #1 steel producer or #1 agricultural producer?I'm pretty sure all of our natural resources had more to do with that but whatever makes you feel less inferior.

Don't you think its in the best interest of Russia to destabilize the EU as much as possible so as to be the dominant organization in that area?Its not like Russia has to worry about you guys not buying gas from them in good times or bad.Wasnt half of what Russia was doing in Georgia was to reassert their dominance over europe and keep anybody from getting any ideas about Georgia becoming apart of europe?