If Russia manages to exploit the potentials of Central Asian States, Analyse the statement?

Question

If Russia mansges to exploit the potential of Central Asian States, it will become the biggest economic and thus political and military challange to the United States. Analyse the ststement

Answer 1

Nonsense. Russia is fed up with wasting money on military. China and India are much bigger. Central Asian states are independent and do not want too much Russian control.

Answer 2

The links between Russia and the Central Asian States are no longer as close as under the USSR.

However, China and India, and to a lesser degree Japan are very keen in the Central Asian States and Russia joinging a free trade group. This will allow these countries to break their dependency from Gulf Oil.

Such a move would have tremendous implications in the Geo-Political field.

The US does not need Gulf Oil as much as Europe and the Asian power houses. Therefore, US control of Gulf Oil is as much a tool of controlling the allies as it is to control the US's own oil supplies.

However, if the Central Asian States and Russia (Siberia) come together and act as a block, building pipelines to India and China, then they could rival OPEC.

This, rather than making Russia the power that it was, would contribute to the growth of China and India, and allowing Japan to gain more freedom from the US. Hence I think that if this happens, China and India will grow in economic might, Japan could act more independently. This would weaken the predominance of the US, economically and politically, but not necessarily militarily.

Answer 3

What do you want me to put?? Is it a riddle in the wrong place?
If it is, then you've put stStement, not stAtement