world war c-the identity of Russia and America

There are no natural enemies among men (ok, ok "people").  We make enemies based on our artificial prejudices.
That being said we have many artificial prejudices.
In the world of artifice, prejudice both weakens and strengthens us as a species.  That is natural selection necessarily built in a need for us to fight and we would not have advanced to this point without that, nor will we likely survive because of it.
It is one premise that we must go on in spite of these battles that are forced upon us so I am continuing the portions of this blog related to both World War C (the current ongoing economic and largely unrecognized war with china-and the book by the same name), physics, the carrying of Big Wang's story and the other items (such as the ongoing targeted poetry writings-you are only partially correct in thinking the target is to undermine the art of poetry).
In line with both continuing and discussing prejudice I will mention that artifice has created a very strong ally in the past and present between Russia and the Russian Citizen and US.  We both have had difficulties, past and present, with corrupt governments.  Perhaps the most insightful thing ever written (The President's Analyst for you non-movie people) about our relationshis is that every year the USSR gets more democratic and the US gets more authoritarian so that eventually we have to meet in the middle (although it is possible if term limits (see China's Weaponized Economy for more on this) aren't put into place we'll pass Russia before we have time to meet in the middle.  In addition to our movement towards one another, we are both melting pot societies.  While Russia's melting pot is less diverse (a major weakness in their country is their inability to assimilate as broadly as we can) we both have diverse populations.  We both run tremendous risks associated with having our technologies undermined. Russia internalized and institutionalized their manufacturing too much and we gave ours away to China.  Worse still, now China controls all the technology of manufacturing on a large scale and both Russia and the United States (as well as the balance of Europe) stands precariously close to ending up with third world economies with no purpose other than to supply raw materials to China (see World War C for the natural result).
While the US has made itself the easier target because of the dependency on greed and the inability of the government (because of corruption, primarily brought on by the un-natural election process without term limits) to protect US manufacturing from the Chinese Economic Onslaught, Russia is much closer to China and therefore is more likely to be undermined as is Europe by the rising manufacturing army that China represents.
This provides us with a unique (although very temporary) advantage which will be lost in 5 years (maybe less maybe more, but 5's a pretty good target).  As a group (Russia, Europe and the United States, we can work towards goals of sustainable areas (sustainable in terms of manufacturing and population density) both for ourselves and those countries that we can ally with based on having long term intelligence goals (see China's weaponized economy for a detailed discussion of short and long term intelligence goals and how China has used those to defeat the western countries in the current economic war).
Still waiting to get enough physicists on board to have the detailed discusion of faster than light travel.  I am now convinced that physicists are bound and determined to live out their lives without this fairly mundane undertaking.  I mention this only because it is indicative of the problems we have with our current stalling developmental economy (our intelligencia as it were) which is being destroyed by the loss of manufacturing which is the application of technology and therefore the fuel for it.