http://jir.janes.com/public/jir/index.shtml 7/30/06

Well that’s good news, at any rate. Although, between Chavez brokered deals with Cuba, Bolivia, China, Iran, and others, I’d say an anti-US bloc has already been forming. The terrifying thing is that the US does not appear to care. China is still looked at as a responsible actor, although they’ve done nothing to earn such a position (ignoring human rights abuses in Sudan, and NKorea and the like). Russia has used its pipelines as a weapon against Europe, while it continues to roll back democracy. Both China and Russia block US attempts to marshal the international community behind some form of action against Iran, and NKorea.

Why do we even bother to pretend that Russia and China can be trusted?