Greg,

I have always believed most of the motivation is about oil. But I thought it stopped at profits. That's bad enough. But viewing Europe as the next superpower enemy, destroying OPEC and the Russian economy--that is downright sick and extremely scary. At least with a multinational PAX, even though most people are not free and huge numbers are poor, at least there was some semblance of peace and a chance for people to organize and better themselves to some degree. But with the superpowers at each others' throats--well, it all looks pretty bleak.

David