Here, go educate yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
Just read your own comment. What do you even expect in response to that garbage? Some emotional, nationalistic rant proving your bias and inability to have an intellectually honest argument. You are nothing but a biased idiot who fails to acknowledge why things are actually happening on the planet.
The fact of the matter is that all these major wars and crisis we see nowadays are the fault of the US. Period. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, etc. They are all the fault of the US. The US is continuing its crusade against Russia.
Oh no, Russia is also a shithole fucking things up? That's not the fucking point. Nobody cares about Russia. Nobody cares about Slovakia. What people care about is the US being the worst warmongerer and human rights violator on the planet and I don't want my country constantly getting dragged into its wars. Period. I don't want Germany - and as an extension, the EU - to be affected by these fucking wars. Wars caused by the fucking US.
I want Russia as a trade partner. Because it is a valuable trade partner. I want China as a trade partner. Because it is a valuable trade partner. I want even the US as a trade partner. Because it's a valuable trade partner.
What I don't want is fucked-up nationalistic politics and war to get in the way of peace and collaboration. And the US is making that fucking impossible. The US wants to fuck things up. The US doesn't want Russia nor China to gain power. They would rather cause wars and spend trillions on killing people than to tolerate Russia breaking out of its economic suppression or China to become the dominant world power. And it's fucking annoying.
American exceptionalism is fucking annoying and it causes massive problems for Europe.
And nothing you said contradicts a single thing I said. Nobody cares about how bad Russia is. Russia isn't as big of a threat and most likely won't be as big of a threat as the US. That won't change for a loooooong time.
In the meantime, our priority must be to get the US out of the EU and European affairs and treat it as a trade partner only. The same way we do with China and Russia. We also need to properly ensure peace between the EU and Russia and between EU member states.
We need a European army that can kick the US out of Europe, that can leave NATO behind, and that can defend against any potential threat from Russia on its own. Simple as that. Stop sucking US-dick, my Slovakian nationalist buddy.
Back to school, kid.
Heed your own words.