[Tax Government]

Russia and its government have disappointed many people who invested effort to learn their language and establish business relationships.

The long-term result of the foray into Georgia will not be the enhanced national power and stature Putin or his supporters imagine.

[Sal]

Russia and its government have disappointed many people who invested effort to learn their language and establish business relationships. The long-term result of the foray into Georgia will not be the enhanced national power and stature Putin or his supporters imagine.

They've already lost money from investors pulling out and it's going to do nothing but get worse. That's what I meant by deserving what they're going to get. Act like gangsters, get treated like gangsters.

[redstateconfidential]

Never a more capricious and duplicitous people you will deal with.The Chinese may undercut you eventually, or go direct to your customers after a while. The Russians will roll your lifeless body out of a shiny black BMW on some back alley after years of being “your friend and partner”.