To: Uncle Ike
"flim-flammed" is a good way to put it. Russia is making public fools of the US and NATO. They are publicly demonstrating the inability or unwillingness of the West to confront Russia. What seems to be lost is the effect this will have on our efforts in Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran, etc. Lack of credibility will make each of these situations worse and ultimately more bloody.
5 posted on
08/21/2008 2:28:10 AM PDT by
Truth29
To: Truth29
” Lack of credibility will make each of these situations worse and ultimately more bloody. “
I’ve maintained from the beginning that the geo-strategic purpose of this exercise was to demonstrate to our shakier ‘friends’ that the US is an unreliable ally...
(Making Iran’s task in the ME that much easier...)
6 posted on
08/21/2008 2:31:58 AM PDT by
Uncle Ike
(Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I jus' sets.........)
To: Truth29
Russia is making public fools of the US and NATO That may be Putin's intention - but if Medvedev doesn't control the military, then Russia look like the fool.
7 posted on
08/21/2008 2:47:54 AM PDT by
HAL9000
("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
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