Their is actually no difference between european and russian people. Its the same bloodline
And Europeans - Russians - Chineses live on the same train line... Maglev - air void... It will always be faster than ships... And could even be faster than planes... Connected to Africa, the Middle East and India...
The mainland continental trade plateform. What are the Americas? A few island in the middle of the ocean whose people decided to destroy worldwide food supply for a quick bucks in the hope of controlling worldwide population through food.
In my book it means war. They are "salting" the fields... Only they use a marginal covert tactics with the naive collaboration of corrupt local farmers.
The strategy of America is to divide as much as possible the mainland by creating as many conflicts as possible...
Mainlanders could be smarter, look for peace, love, stability, harmony and sustainability... And select the few us based corporations allowed to inverse. The rest... Chap11.