Re: ESU origins..

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 07:10:38AM -0600, Doug Evans wrote:
>Obviously, many possible precursors, and all possibly part of a mix.

As far as I can tell there are basically two classes of cooperation:

"(Russia|China) is your friend now! Please join our cooperation
organisation. It's not at all lopsided or involuntary."

"Oh crap, let's cooperate so that we have _some_ chance against
(Russia|China)."

R