The new Russia-bahers (December 30, 2005)

The Washington Times ^ | December 30, 2005 | Edward Lozansky

[propertius]

Why are you publishing an op-ed from December?

[vertolet]

I've found it today.

[LIConFem]

"The language used by Soviet journalists and commentators was so rude and hysterical that even people sympathetic to the Communist cause were turned off. "

Sounds rather like the current-day Democrat party.

[MarMema]

ping

[GarySpFc]

I naively thought that America was trying to teach Russians to use free-market mechanisms, and that the WTO is demanding from Russia to use market prices for gas. So, I made a few clicks on Google and discovered that the real gas price these days is around $450 per 1,000 cubic meters. The latest Russian offer to Ukraine is almost half that, but Mr. Hiatt believes that it is too high and demands that the White House get into action and start regulating prices.

The price of gas is $451 in the US. That said, the real issue in the Russian-Ukranian gas dispute was not so much the price of Russian gas or the transit fees the Ukraine received for transporting Russian gas. Ukrainian oligarchs were/are upset that strict controls were instituted under the new contract, and the Ukraine would no longer be able to siphon off billions of dollars worth of gas, and resell it to the EU at market prices.

[GarySpFc]

ping

[avg_freeper]

The poor Russians. Their only fault is providing our enemies with weapons to kill us.

We should really give them a break.

[vertolet]

So you justify Soviet-style propaganda?

[proxy_user]

The weapons are much more likely to be turned against them than us. They are nearby, we are not.

It was Lenin who said that a capitalist would sell him the rope he would use to hang him, but now the shoe seems to be on the other foot.

[avg_freeper]

"So you justify Soviet-style propaganda? "

Yes, obviously the following comment:

"The poor Russians. Their only fault is providing our enemies with weapons to kill us. We should really give them a break."

, directly implies that I

"justify Soviet-style propaganda",

"have an acute phobia of llamas",

"am addicted to hallucinogenic aardvarks",

"believe in a world wide conspiracy involving chrome toasters",

"pledged my eternal allegiance to a single stalk of celery in 1985",

"have fantasies about eating sloppy joes with Mr. T" (I pitty the fool that doesn't like sloppy joes),

"think I look sexy in waders",

and finally

"stopped listening to the 'voices' because they were the ones that told me to like the 70's Art Rock group Kansas in the first place".

[Grzegorz 246]

Hi. Do you have a Russian wife ?

[vertolet]

I'm Russian.

[caver]

"Sounds rather like the current-day Democrat party."

And the nuts in North Korea.

[Mi-kha-el]

Who in the world is "Vladimir (Nikolai) Lenin"?

[Kuehn12]

Russia really doesn't care who they sell weapons to, they are in it for the money. Without the export market for their inferior weapons, the whole of the Russian Defense Industry would disappear. The Russian Defense Ministry and government aren't buying weapons at no where near the level during the Soviet Era, so what do you expect them to do. They know that no self respecting military given the choice between American weapons and theirs is going to choose theirs. I find it comforting, the Iranian buy inferior Russian junk and we simply blow it up with ease with no real casualties in the process. It is a win-win proposition, they get hard currency and we get military victory.

[vertolet]

It's obviously an author's mistake. Must be "(Ulyanov) Lenin".

[Mi-kha-el]

If you are Russian you should know what's going on in the Russian media and the general anti-American frenzy taking place in Russia right now. Please don't take the advantage of the fact that people here cannot read Russian. I can pluck out so many quotes from the Russian media that this oped will seem like a Disney ride. Let us not play games here.

[Mi-kha-el]

So maybe the author should do some research before posing as an expert in Russian-American affairs.

[vertolet]

'The Washington Post' is a mainstream newspaper.
You cannot find something similar in mainsream Russian newspapers.