What are the root causes of the Russian-American conflict?

Little time remains before the US presidential election, scheduled for November 8th. Yesterday, the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, defeated her rival, a Republican Donald Trump in the second TV debate, a survey data shows. Now Clinton is ahead of Trump by eight percentage points. Observers note that the use of the anti-Russian rhetoric during the election campaign in the United States is detrimental to the Russian-American relations.

According to a political analyst on the international affairs, Leonid Krutakov, ‘’ an anti-Russian card is a key card in the current election campaign for the US elite, who have made a stake on Clinton and her victory. By all means they are trying to link Trump to Russia, and make him almost Putin's agent, so any worsening of a situation around Russia plays in hands of Clinton and against Trump.’’

According to the expert, a confrontation will grow before the election, but a question is what will happen after the vote: "If Trump wins, there will be a return to a kind of an isolationist model of the United States, that is, self-absorption, curtailing of an expansion for an expansion, which is called ‘the big democratization project’ in the US and being embodied in the Middle East and throughout the world. If Clinton wins, a pressure will continue. Some contacts and ways to establish a dialogue will be created, but there is nowhere to retreat for the US in this situation, and it is obvious.’’

Speaking about the reasons of the US-Russian conflict, Krutakov noticed that it was brought up by the US strategic line for a democratization of the big Middle East: "This line was announced by Condoleezza Rice during the presidency of George Bush junior. The ‘Islamic State’ originally was composed of the Iraqi officers of the former Saddam's army, and firslty ISIS aimed Baghdad. Just in three weeks they demolished the official army of Iraq, then the US intervened to stop them. Then for the first time ever the US and Iran acted together to stop ISIS. The group was turned  to the Syrian direction, because this country is an energy window from the Middle East to Europe. Two projects were going through the territory of Syria - one from Iran and one from Qatar.’’

According to the expert, the limitrophe states, the Baltic states, Poland and Ukraine, overlap for Russia a direct access to the EU. "Plus, there is the third energy package, which eliminates a possibility of making an agreement with each country separately. Russia remains two points of entry into Europe, the Nord Stream and the Turkish Stream. A large-scale defeat in Syria would mean a prolonged economic and political crisis with a change of elites, both political and economic, in the US. The economy of the financial bubbles will deflate. Therefore, Americans will go the whole hog.’’