Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post

Another reason: I personally think there is a certain amount of racism (or simply valuing white/Caucasian Christian lives more than moslem, Asian or African) in all these US invasions and wars. Russians are mostly white, Christian and certainly educated. Americans don't want to fight white, educated Christians. Europeans may not love Putin, and some may have a historical grief with Russia. But nobody wants to see Moscow nuked (other than maybe Carl Bildt and William Hague). I am sure of that.
THat's true. Russia seems to be only indo-european nation (alon with those ethnic groups withing russian borders and some beyond) that is getting out of that dollar system again.