Can the United States and Former Soviet Union ever be rue allies?
Maybe not allies, unless some common enemy appears. We did manage to be allies with the Soviet Union under Stalin so anything is possible. What we can hope for is a understanding that disagreements can be resolved peacefully and through negotiation rather than fighting, even through proxies. The US support for the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan was just another piece of the old Great Game between Britain and Russia over India. It is now inconceivable to most Europeans that Britain, France and Germany should ever go to war again. The populations of all of these countries have far more in common than they have to keep them apart and wise statesmen and cultural leaders foster links. In time, we all hope that the same will be true for Russia, and China. We will still have disagreements. Simple geography means that the interests of states will differ. Europe looks different from Germany than it does from Britain. Our economies develop in different ways and some of our cultural expressions may be
