After what happened in Ukraine where apparently Washington and Brussels looked confident as having scored a very strategic goal overthrowing pro russian Yanukovich and installing pro western Petro Poroshenko and all that followed suit winning the latest parliamentary elections, it ostensibly looks as if situation not only in Ukraine (including the ongoing situation of violence in the Donbass, Lugansk and Donetsk where proKremlin factors are not giving any signals of surrendering their sovereignty claims strongly supported by Mr Putin, now there had been dangerous geopolitical maneuverings either by the White House Brussels axis or by the Kremlin taking the rest of the Eurasian landmass as a chess game where the next scenarios have been the Baltic (Estonia, Finland and Sweden have been crying out loud threats by russian navy in their waters), denied consequently by the Kremlin, and having NATO carrying out war games with the Baltic states after these maneouvres. Also Russia has been pushing and supportng strongly independence elements in Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Georgian war redux?), giving the fact that Georgia and all what happens there is of russian concern or has been. Most recently every presidential and parliamentary election in Romania and Moldova as the most recent have been closely watched by the EuropeanUnion and the Kremlin where the outcomes are decisive for their both geopolitical intentions. And Turkey wants russian gas too as the President Erdogan will surely sign a gas suppy agreement with Mr Putin, hitting another blow to Washington's intention in the area. And we have Russia signing heavy military and energy alliances with Pakistan (former US ally in combating and fighting Al Qaeda and now courted and seduced by Beijing and Moscow now). And if this was not enough, Moscow flexing muscles in the English Channel and no word by the White House so far, showing that so far and even under strong economic and financial sanctions, Mr Vladimir Putin is consistent with his strategy of at least retain Russian sphere of influence of Eurasia, and the most powerful tool is the Eurasian Union, where Armenia too fell under its magical spell even with the Armenian lobby in Capitol Hill being one of the strongest and most influencer, but not enough to stop this. So it seems that so far the sacrosanctum sanctions towards Russia have not worked to block the Kremlin from attaining its full geopolitical goal. Even the Kremlin recently could luxuriously afford to send surveillance planes to guess where? The Guf of Mexico! Home of the most prominent oil and gas platfoms of the US energy industry, and no strong reply from Washington to this either.
This is why there are some dangeous games unfolding in Eurasia until now, and Russia likely will have the lead in the medium term.
