Hmm... I wonder how these countries feel, how would America feel if they were being surrounded by Russia, China, etc???
"US tanks and warships are crawling all over the old Soviet army bases in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Farther south, US warships are parked in the Mediterranean Sea and American fighter jets are flying over Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Over 12 hundred US soldiers are stationed in and around Baghdad. Plus, CIA operatives and other military forces are controlling drone strikes farther south in Yemen. If that wasn’t enough, Navy ships are currently in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, on both sides of Saudi Arabia. 
Just to the east, US forces are still setting up shop in Afghanistan, and they’re increasing their presence in Pakistan. Both of those countries share borders with Iran and China, two countries who aren’t on the best of terms with the US. Speaking of China, just this week, the Pentagon announced rebel Islamic forces creating unrest in Myanmar, formerly known Burma. Even farther to the east, the US just finished conducting War Games in the East China Sea with Japan and South Korea. Right now, they’re ALSO training Filipino Armed Forces in the SOUTH China Sea.
When you connect the dots, the US military is currently established in literally almost every other country, surrounding the southern borders of Russia and China.
And oh, by the way, another 3,000 US troops are in West Africa, building quarantine zones and health centers in the fight against Ebola. 

The photo of Paul Wolfowitz, Jewish Zionist Neocon (American master of geopolitics.) 
 "The Wolfowitz Doctrine states that the “first objective” of American foreign and military policy is “to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat [to US unilateral action] on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.” (A “hostile power” is a country sufficiently strong to have a foreign policy independent from Washington’s.) 
The unilateral assertion of American power begin in earnest during the Clinton regime with the interventions in Yugoslavia, Serbia, Kosovo, and the no-fly zone imposed on Iraq.  In 1997 the neoconservatives penned their “Project for a New American Century.”  
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In 1998, three years prior to 9/11, the neoconservatives sent a letter to President Clinton calling for regime change in Iraq and “the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.”  Neoconservatives set out their program for removing seven governments in five years. http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called neoconservativism. The Soviet Union had served as a constraint on US unilateral action. With the removal of this constraint on Washington, neoconservatives declared their agenda of US world hegemony.  
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America was now the “sole superpower,” the “uni-power,” that could act without restraint anywhere in the world.The Washington Post neoconservative journalist Charles Krauthammer summed up the “new reality” as follows:“We have overwhelming global power. We are history’s designated custodians of the international system. When the Soviet Union fell, something new was born, something utterly new–a uni-polar world dominated by a single superpower unchecked by any rival and with decisive reach in every corner of the globe. 

http://econ.st/1XrToqV   The game is in the process: Russia, USA and China! From Russia with love... No cloths, no chips, but very nice magic glasses :-)  Putin is a hero, legend, fighter against terrorists! Obama's done! No kidding! There is more going on here than most know or that meets the eye - it is quite significant in the days and years to come. We're living not in a boring period.

This picture is amazing. The shirtless horseback ridding Putin was due to come back soon. Play the game! Russia despite all the economic odds have lowered its external debt which is significant.  To survive in this world strategy is most important than fast wins.  Russia and China are teaming up. We are witnessing the most significant shift in power relations since the end of the cold war.

The new game - American dominance is being challenged.
War deals, however, there are signs of collapse. New Cold War. Gaining legitimacy in a power structure without rules seems a difficult endeavor. This analysis of the U.S. wanting to establish rules vs. Russia wanting to capitalize states a solid case. How will legitimacy be evaluated from these two perspectives? It seems to be the bigger question. The world is getting very complicated. We need STATESMEN.