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Subject Russian War Games on Baltic Border Spark Security Fears

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So the US can start wars with sovereign nations at will, but Russia can't train on it's own fucking soil?
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Russia do not fear USA, far from it.
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Don't be a fool. Russia fears the USA just like the USA fears Russia. Both can destroy each other. Both will destroy each other if there is ever a war which is why there will never be one. Russia and the USA will continue to fight each other through proxy wars like Syria.

Russia and USA aren't so different though. Their interests align in many places and this will only grow in time. The main reason the USA opposed the USSR is because of communism and control over energy.

Well communism is gone for the most part and energy is becoming less of an issue and both the USA and Russia have discovered more energy.

In the future it's more likely the USA and Russia will be allies then enemies. Russia and the USA share a common enemy with Islam. With the rise of China, Russia is threatened. China will compete for influence in central Asia which threatens Russia. China will eventually want to expand and guess whats directly to the north of them? Resource rich Russian lands that are almost empty. In fact the Chinese have already started the invasion. More and more Chinese immigrants move (legally and illegally) to Siberia everyday.

[i]Russian assessments from 1997 suggested that China, not the United States, posed the greatest threat to Russia’s interests and allies. Indeed, leading Russian scholars of international relations such as Alexei Arbatov predicted that over the next five to 20 years, Russia should carefully watch China’s expansionism toward Siberia and the Russian Far East, as well as Central Asia … _thediplomat

“[Russians are] still worried that China will invade Siberia one day because of the resources,” Dmitry Gorenburg, a senior analyst at military and public sector think tank CNA, said in an interview last month.

“Because from the Russian point of view it’s a very sparsely populated area, hard to defend, very remote from the center of Russia,” he said. _Taipei Times[/i]

NATO is also getting weaker. The USA bears the lions share of the burden and the Europeans depend on the USA more and more. Most of our "allies" would have trouble defending their own lands let alone helping in a major war. Even the large powers like the UK barely have enough ships to patrol their own coast.

Over the next decade or so it makes sense for a new major alliance for form based around the USA, Russia, UK, Germany, France, and India to arise. All countries share a common enemy in Islam and are threatened by a large China.
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Original Message Baltic officials said regional security had been weakened as Russia led military exercises on their doorstep involving almost 12,000 troops.

A week of land and sea maneuvers dubbed “Zapad 2013,” or “West 2013,” began today as part of biennial exercises with Belarus, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on its website. Troops in both nations tested coordination in destroying “illegal armed formations,” it said.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which regained independence in 1991 after half a century of Soviet rule, joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 2004 amid Russian opposition. NATO has held exercises in the Baltic region since 2010, while Russia has opened new military bases and deployed more troops on its western border in recent years, according to the defense ministers of Estonia and Latvia.

While Russia calls today’s maneuvers an anti-terrorism exercise, they suggest an escalation “into a conflict with NATO member countries,” Estonian Defense Minister Urmas Reinsalu said yesterday. “An exercise of this nature is certainly negatively affecting the security environment in the region.”

[link to www.bloomberg.com]

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