The whole world knows that if Russia had a military operation on foreign soil, even if it was a mission of reconstruction, the U.S. would do everything it can to sabotage, undermine that mission, and would call on (demand) other nations to do the same. The goal of NATO (The U.S) is to encircle, then choke Russia, every year they get closer to that goal. This cannot be stopped with any appeasement to NATO.

We need more cannon fodder in Afghanistan! Help! Help!

Russia should just sit back and enjoy the show. Let the US get beaten down this time in Afghanistan! This is as close to vindication as Russia will get. Russia should not help the US and NATO! It was the US, together with its NATO that engineered Russia's defeat in 1989. Let the US choke on the same situation.

I quiet agree with the three preceding comments. Russia must do all it can to stop the afghan drugs from crossing her borders; but nothing else... She should remember the thousands young soviet soldiers killed in afghanistan by american pawns, with US and european weapons. Helping those invaders who are there, only for materialistic purposes will be an insulte to those dead russian citizen. Please don't do it !!! Sincerely...Jean-Claude Meslin

NATO has made its own bed and now it can lie in it. I've looked at the map and Russia doesn't share a border with Afghanistan anymore. In fact there is no direct land route from Russia to Afghanistan that doesn't go through two countries. Kazakhstan plus Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are really the only former Soviet country options, and Russia is probably better off assisting all those countries with their border security than directly helping NATO because lets face it, if the US finds osama bin laden they will be out of afghanistan quicker than you can blink your eyes and NATO will be right behind them.