Posted on 08/20/2008 11:53:51 AM PDT by zencat
Norway's Defense Ministry says Russia has informed it that it plans to cut all military ties with NATO.
Ministry spokeswoman Heidi Langvik-Hansen says the country's embassy received a telephone call from Russia's Defense Ministry on Wednesday, saying Moscow plans "to freeze all military cooperation with NATO and allied countries."
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The more things change the more they stay the same. The Russian bear is back and Putin is pulling the puppet strings. Thankfully our president was able to look into his soul.
I used to think the same as you. Why doesn't Russia see the threat to itself from China and Iran? But I think the answer is that Russia is not a part of Europe. It is more Asiatic than European. And to the Slovophiles, Russia is a unique continent to itself, neither a part of Europe nor Asia.
In the 3rd centure AD, the Roman emperor Constantine moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople in the more prosperous east of the empire. Constantinople became the New or Second Rome. That Second Rome converted the Russians to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. When Constantinople fell to the Turks in the 15th century, Moscow thought that it was now the Third Rome. Even the ruling family took the name Romanoff.
Russia has a long history of ruling an empire under a Tsar. (This word Tsar derives from the Latin Caesar via the German Kaiser.) Many Russians still think that it is their destiny to rule a great empire. The Soviet Union was only the last version of that empire. Putin is simply trying to revive the Russian empire.
Putin maybe calculating that massive intimidation will get Russia what they want. Question is what can they get to stop the skid?
That is true. But if you tally up the medals won by the Anglosphere of the US, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, you end up with 164 medals so far, from a population of less that 1/3 that of China. That I call impressive.
Careful now!
I was accused of “Bush bashing” when I said the same thing recently.
Except McCain
< Obama >
This is just as much the fault of Georgia as it is Russia’s, and it’s just wrong to blame Putin
< /Obama >
“Bush bashing?” I doubt it. BDS, more likely.
I agree with you. Great post. You either do or should write for STRATFOR.
This little mis-adventure gave us all kinds of intelligence. We heard the Russians used a great deal of cyberwarfare against poor little GA. Everything The Bear did do has been duly noted by NSA et al and there are mountains of elint, sigint and humnit to keep analysts busy for months. We will know enough of what they do and will do, and can design and erect counter-measures against all of it. We’ll also discover their soft spots.
Condi is in her element. Her forte is Russia.
I guess I was thinking of the media, which didn’t didn’t seem to understand that it meant anything for quite some time.
susie
Ping.
Who gives a sh@t.
Russia sent their "third string" ground troops into Georgia, a small country with no military. Looking back at them are battle hardened fighters from the US, GB, Poland, Turkey, France, Germany and countless other countries in the EU and NATO and former USSR satellites..
The Russians just blinked.....
The newly aggressive stance taken by Russia is just in time for the Democrats next week to denounce Bush for reviving the Cold War.
Do we have appropriate interceptors down in FL?
“Russia sent their “third string” ground troops into Georgia, a small country with no military. Looking back at them are battle hardened fighters from the US, GB, Poland, Turkey, France, Germany and countless other countries in the EU and NATO and former USSR satellites..”
Except they know that nobody will do anything militarily against them unless they really step over the line.
Drill here, drill now and send the Russian bear back into bankruptcy.
Didn't Iraq invasion of Kuwait and the UN have something to do with it?
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