Well ya know...
Conflict and war are going to happen. History shows this. It's virtually unavoidable simply do to the fact that there are many religions, for one, and we are humans and selfish, for another...many more reason exist.
Right, wrong, or in between, would be nice to be on the winning side, if there could be a winning side.
This could be a great protection and deterrence from the nukes Russia is about to first strike us with any time now. This is obvious to me. Russia pounced on Georgia, who's been screaming to get under NATO, just to see what our response would be. If we show weakness I believe Russia may just first strike us to gain world supremacy.