And while Pakistan cuts off supplies to Nato, Russian anti americanism hits new high

A national poll conducted by the independent Levada Center over August 15-22 - that is, in the immediate wake of the five-day Russo-Georgian war - found a high degree of anti-Western and particularly anti-American sentiment. A total of 75 percent of the respondents stated that Russian-American relations were to one degree or another not good, with 39 percent saying relations were "chilly," 28 percent saying relations were "strained," and eight percent saying relations were "hostile."

Nearly half of those polled - 47 percent - said they believe that the major countries of the West are enemies of Russia, are trying to resolve their problems at Russia's expense, and will, given the opportunity, harm Russia's interests. Asked to identify the main cause of the conflict over South Ossetia, 49 percent of those polled answered that it was the leadership of the United States trying to spread its influence over Russia's neighbors. In addition, 74 percent of those polled said they agreed with the statement that Georgia and the Georgian people have become hostages to the geopolitical aspirations of the U.S. leadership, and 66 percent said they believe that the leaders of Western countries support Georgia in the conflict over South Ossetia because those leaders are seeking to weaken Russia and to force it out of the Caucasus. Curiously, 47 percent of the poll's respondents said they thought that Russia's relations with Western countries would not worsen as a result of the conflict over South Ossetia, with 17 percent saying that relations with the West would even improve. Only 21 percent said they thought relations with Western countries would worsen as a result of the conflict over South Ossetia (www.levada.ru, August 27).
The Russian people are completely delusional in the grip of Putin.

In a discussion about the results of the poll, the director of the Levada Center, Lev Gudkov, said that the anti-Western sentiment reflected in the poll is not new, but began to grow in 2000 - around the time of Vladimir Putin's accession as Russian president - as the result of a "propaganda" campaign in the state-controlled media, above all on television. According to Gudkov, this propaganda campaign "revived all the older Soviet complexes - confrontation with the West, confrontation with America, asserting yourself as a power that is strengthening, reestablishing your authority [and] power." Russians "liked this very much," said Gudkov.

"The ratio of positive to negative feelings about America above all was stable before that period, around 2:1 - that is, 60-65 percent thought positively [about the U.S.], and around 30 percent thought negatively [about the U.S.]," he said, referring to the period of end of the 1990s to 2000. "Today that situation has not simply turned around. For the first time, we recorded at the end of August a peak in anti-Western sentiment: around three-quarters [of those polled] to varying degrees have a negative attitude towards America, view it as the main opponent."

Opponent to what? Do the Russians think we 'want' Russia? For what, oil? Hey, Chavez is a lot closer, and WARMER.
We are all like a pack of dogs, is that all there is, and all that can be? If so, we'd better enlarge the navy and air force, as well as the army.
Fukuyama must have been hallucinating when he wrote his book.
It should be pretty obvious what was really in pootey poot's eyes, George.
We'd better be prepared for these idiots to be helping those forces committed to the end of our way of life, ALL OVER AGAIN.
What a waste!