The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.
The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
Russia continues to side with... rogue states and terrorist organizations, following Vladimir Putin's pattern of gratuitous and unpunished affronts to U.S. interests.
Russia can become a strategic partner in a fight against international terrorism.
For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.
You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.