08/17/2007 7:20:50 PM PDT
· 9 of 16 JohnA
to yooper
Financial Times was right: This is headed for the sort of resolution called for by international law. This is why Bush wants the Law of the Sea Treaty part of US law, or however you phrase it.
Also, another British paper, I forget which, said that Russia put out the bait and Canada and the US went for it.
It's just show biz and a bit mischief aimed at Russian voters and to speed up the Bush decision, or whomever Bush needs to consult on it. Maybe Congress.
Norway has an interest, at least as contractor, though Statoil, in Schtokman. I'm glad they are telling everybody just to calm down.
He concludes that it was the Soviet Union which defeated the Nazi war machine, with the British and Americans providing little more than a sound supporting role in the European theatre. Lest he seem a revisionist leftist or left-over Stalinist or a cranky anti-American, he is not. As an Oxford don who made his reputation with Gods Playground, a fine history of Poland, he simply wants a history stripped of nationalistic bias. Europe at War is the latest installment in his efforts to emphasise the importance of the peripheries in contemporary history.
- Reviewer, Michael Cook on Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory Wednesday, 14 February 2007
08/17/2007 5:49:46 PM PDT
· 27 of 30 JohnA
to athelass
Mark Steyn doesn’t qualify for a single article published in Johnson’s Russia List. That says a a lot about Mark Steyn. I’ve read his stuff. He’s a cheap shot artist. You can read him if you want. People who invest in Russia (the US is #7 and looking like growing) give Mark-boy the big pass.