Posted on 08/16/2008 9:12:30 AM PDT by bereanway
M oscow’s blitzkrieg in Georgia is more than a military campaign. It is designed to empower Russia’s diplomatic strategy, which seeks to make the European Union (EU) the West’s chief representative in future negotiations with Russia. Quite naturally the Kremlin wants to escape the logic of U.S. and NATO policy, which is to contain Russia within her national borders. Meanwhile, the European Union is an entirely different animal: toothless, utopian and ready to please.
(Excerpt) Read more at financialsense.com ...
And let us remember that our limp-d**k libs want us to be more like the Euroweenies.
"Today the European Union confronts Russia in the same way Neville Chamberlain confronted Hitler in 1938; being outwitted and tricked in the ceasefire negotiations, there is no possible outcome other than appeasement. The Russians insist that their troops be accepted as peacekeepers in Georgia. The French mediators allow this. And so, the stipulated withdrawal of combatants therefore does not apply to the Russian troops. Under this ceasefire agreement Moscow can claim – in a strictly legal sense – that Russian troops can stay in Georgia indefinitely. President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin are laughing at the French while observing international law. Meanwhile, occupied Georgia is looted and burned; Georgian ships are sunk and the Georgian capital is strangled."
Kosovo gave Russia merely a convenient talking point. We should be under no illusion. Russia would have done exactly the same thing without Kosovo. BTW the whole issue has little to do with "Russian-speaking". The Ossets are Iranian-related ethnically and linguistically. The Russians merely handed them out fresh passports as a pretext for invasion.
Sounds like the whore in Orwell's 1984. Coincidence?
This is an excellent article. However, some of the points are incorrect, important points.
It is clear and historic that authoriatarian governments like Russia, by necessity, must attack the openness of free states, as they see that as a weakness.
As always, this allows some short and temporary wins for authoritarian states like Russia. But they are always pyrrhic victories.
“which seeks to make the European Union (EU) the West’s chief representative in future negotiations with Russia.”
The EU is full of division, this is true. But the Russians underestimate democratic organizations. They will respond in full and strong fashion ove time. NATO will absorb Ukraine, for sure now. Georgia, if it survives will also enter into NATO.
More importantly, Putin/Medvedev totally underestimate the US’s temporaray political weakness. The United States has sent an unequivocal message to Russia by not only finalizing the BMD agreement of Patriots into Poland, but has signed a mutual defense agreement that goes far beyond NATO. In other words, Russia will never have Poland again.
Energy independence is not an option. Free nations must break the yoke of energy dependence on hostile nations.
Nuclear must be expanded in a big way now.
I agree and Russia is but a minor part of this. Let’s don’t give them too much credit. We should fear China as well as Iran.
It is imperative that we follow up on the actions with Russia, such as excluding them from WTO and booting them from G7/G8.
Just as important is assisting Israel in knocking out Iran’s nuclear capability and leaving Iraq within 2-3 years to evolve as they will - so that our military can’t reorganize and concentrate on future conflicts and deterrence with a real super power in China.
Even 9/11, in the end, wasn't enough to really rally this country to go after the Visigoths, Vandals and Huns and destroy them.....The Rape of Georgia in the end will not be enough I'm afraid. That's why I think we need to adjust our policies enough to position ourselves to act when the real crisis hits ( NATO for Ukraine, wiping our Iran's nuke capacity), while accepting the reality that in today's debased political climate the forces of barbarism will continue to advance until some emotional, spiritual line is crossed and the West comes alive and fights back.
The Kremlin strategists believe that the United States is on the brink of a crippling dislocation. According to a July 29 Pravda article, an anonymous Russian diplomat revealed that the “Russian administration believes the United States may soon suffer from a serious political crisis.” The sequence begins with a financial crash, advances to political unrest and finally to the dissolution of American military power. As the Russian diplomat warned, “America is standing on the verge of a large-scale crisis of its own existence.”
what could this “serious political crisis” be?
excellant points.thanks so much for clarifying so much misinformation that the western media just akes from the KGB talking points.
excellant points. you just made me calm down again (ha). You must know your history and politics.
Obama’s Hawaiian vacation pictures didn’t turn out!
Maybe their wet dream that boyBO moves into the White house.
re.....finalizing the BMD agreement of Patriots into Poland.
There was a guest on Hugh Hewitt yesterday who said this missile shield would be effective against Iranian missiles, not Russian.
Doe anyone know if this is factual?
The only thing I know is that the agreement with Poland only includes 10 land based interceptors. For Poland I think the more important issue was the permanent placement of the Patriots and the mutual defense treaty. 10 interceptors is not a very large number viewed in context of total Russian capabilities. Evidently Poland didn’t feel the land based interceptors did anything to protect them against the Russians as they insisted on additional US supplied measures before they would agree to their installation.
As I read it, the piece foresees a political crisis precipitated by a financial collapse.
No financial collapse, no political crisis, I guess.
I see this necessarily as a comment about the upcoming presidential election.
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