> Isn't this one of the main reasons for US animosity towards Russia?
It's like this: the US oiligarchy was rampaging through Central Asia like the alien space invaders they basically are ("All your oil belong to us"). Suddenly, Bearzilla shows up in nanotech body-armor, wielding Topol-Ms, RPG-29s and, most devastating of all... Olympic skis. The rest is, as they say, Eurasian history!
-- DRR