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  • This Russian risk could yet dwarf our blunder on Iraq [Leftist Barf Alert]

    06/06/2007 1:59:20 AM PDT · by RusIvan · 24 replies · 1,064+ views
    This Russian risk could yet dwarf our blunder on Iraq Putin's belligerence is the upshot of inept western diplomacy. Following cold war with cold peace may prove a historic error Simon Jenkins Wednesday June 6, 2007 The Guardian Will history tell us we were fools? We worried about the wrong war and made the wrong enemies. In the first decade of the 21st century the leaders of America and Britain allowed themselves to be distracted by a few Islamist bombers and took easy refuge in the politics of fear. They concocted a "war on terror" and went off to fight...
  • 'I am a True Democrat' ....(Russian President Vladimir Putin)

    06/14/2007 7:04:56 AM PDT · by IrishMike · 12 replies · 497+ views
    Spiegel ^ | June 04, 2007
    Russian President Vladimir Putin discusses the missile dispute with the United States, the risks of cooperating with Western companies in the production of Russian natural gas and what he describes as democratic deficiencies in the United States and Europe. .................................................... QUESTION: Mr. President, it looks as though Russia has lost its fondness for the West. Your relations with Germany have deteriorated, and those with the United States even more so. Are we moving towards another Cold War? Putin: In international affairs and relations between the states, one can hardly be using any terminology which would be appropriate in the relations...