i don't know any of the background and the history of both, but for me as european the situation over there looks very bad. as germany in world war 2, russia used the olympic games to prepare their attack and now they are attacking the ukraine (like germany poland). and whole europe has to look at it because it dependents to russia (gas). i'm sure russia has weapons of mass destruction, but unlike they do, usa also keep doing nothing. i don't know - i thought russia was one of the big 8 - but now they're take the place of germany and try to create their own "europe".