I was referring to the anti-Russian sentiment brewing in both countries. Russia has, after all, engaged in a military conflict with Georgia on behalf of South Ossetia in 2008. The two countries have been enemies since some time before that, and remain in hostility towards each other.

The big difference, of course, is that Mesopotamia is unlikely to commit crimes on foreign soil any time soon because you dismiss its territorial ambitions... unless I'm missing something everyone else gets here.