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U.S.-Russia Moscow Summit Presents Last Opportunity to Avoid War in Georgia

[Marine_Uncle]

Russian experts that have been around since the stone age are a dime a dozen. Think tanks in DC have scores of them available to present talks on the fly. This bull shit that we don't give adequate audience to the clowns in the Kremlin is baloney in my opinion.
Beyond that. Just what does zero and the State Department hope to really accomplish other then reducing nuclear weapons.
There are those in Russia that are insistent that Russia start cutting back on foreign investments and imports and start to create their own full spectrum industry and economy from an internal stand point. In which case, what can the US offer them that would appease them, other then bowing down before them.