Posted on 07/02/2008 3:45:13 AM PDT by vertolet
With the demise of Communism, reasons for the West and Russia to be in confrontation vanished. Russia entered on the path of European democracy.
In many areas, cooperation between Russia and NATO has yielded positive results. This is true in Russia's support for the transit of cargo by the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. We are also gaining momentum in civil emergency planning, and our scientists are successfully collaborating on equipment to fight terrorism.
Such successes, however, are largely overshadowed by contradictions in another issue - NATO enlargement and the admission of Ukraine and Georgia into the alliance. As the official representative of Russia to NATO I have to deal with what NATO representatives give as arguments, which are in fact fusty propaganda rhetoric of the Cold War. These dogmas threaten both progress in Russia-NATO relations and the prospects for global security, and even the process of cementing democracy in Russia.
Dogma No. 1: NATO is a union of democratic states, and democratic states do not fight other democracies.
This is totally meaningless. NATO is not a union of democracies; it is a union of militaries...
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-bflr—
> With the demise of Communism, reasons for the West and Russia to be in confrontation vanished.
Global Communism hasn’t died. It is walking around in disguise. It is now Liberal Environmentalism (as opposed to Conservationism, which has similar real environment goals, but without the global redistribution of wealth),
Putin is a communist with an image team and a makeover.
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