The past two decades since the 1991 collapse of Communism have seen the Russian Federation and the U.S. involved in an updated version of the 19th century’s “Great Game’ for mastery in Eurasia over the debris field of the former USSR.
Not surprisingly, Moscow regards its former colonial fiefdoms as part of its “near abroad,” a “Monroeskii Doktrin” variant of U.S. interest in Central and Latin American, where a priori interests rule.
U.S. interests in the post-Soviet Eurasian space since 1991 have fixated first on the region’s immense but underdeveloped energy resources, while the post-9/11 environment added a second dimension – military bases, handily useful for monitoring both the Russian bear and a rising China.
Full article at: Tajikistan, a Frail Nation-State
I think you're the only person that:
A. Thinks this is news. and B. Reads the posts on that site.
sorry to break it to you...
+1
It might not be news, but still an interesting topic. I bet your knowledge of central asia is close to zero...never mind, the Chinese and Russians know what they are doing there and will have staked claims to what they need before the US has a strategic policy in place and you will complain when energy prices continue to increase.
Glorifying your own ignorance, joke's on you
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