Current Russian policy is a threat to Western Capitalist circles because:

1. it doesn't allow them to exploit Russian natural resources on the cheap (in fact hardly at all)
   
2. it's re-asserting its own business interests in central Europe, the Balkans, the Caucuses and the Middle East
   
3. it's reinforced with some very sophisticated military gadgets.

Well, NATO was supposedly a military alliance against the Soviet Union, forged out of a re-purposed war time alliance after a barely decent interval had passed to allow the rehabilitation of the Germans.

And clearly you know all this much better than I do, Migeru. I just wonder why the western public is so intensely stupid or indifferent as to tolerate this reflexive reversion of their "alliances" into 19th century Great Game policies. Yet more evidence that the NeoCon dream of repealing the 20th century is close to realisation.