tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post5759140998688194641..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: Paranoid PutinLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-21439104180259578562007-10-13T18:41:00.000-04:002007-10-13T18:41:00.000-04:00russia has without question lost any respect for t...russia has without question lost any respect for the west, mostly because it sees the chaos it can so easily create with so little effort.<BR/><BR/>the desperate, indulgent and selfish displays by germany to build a bilateral pipeline, regardless of environmental risks, ignoring strategic concerns of every nearby country and hense utterly bipassing the spirit of EU solidarity are the best example of how the EU has failed absolutely to draw its members together in effictive practical ways that would benefit citizens as a bloc, regions of europe as a bloc.<BR/><BR/>until this changes, opportunistic dividers like putin will continue to flourish.klxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02756387772020517484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-59125971259159359602007-10-13T04:28:00.000-04:002007-10-13T04:28:00.000-04:00By treating the Butcher of the Balkans as a reason...By treating the Butcher of the Balkans as a reasonable statesman who must be accommodated, those grandees who proclaimed their even-handedness - Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen, Sir Michael Rose - proved in effect to be accomplices of Serb aggression, since the beneficiaries of this neutrality were Miloševic and his goon squads.<BR/>http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleID=686&reportid=146Vincent Jappihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459192493036795125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-53165935755671558992007-10-12T19:29:00.000-04:002007-10-12T19:29:00.000-04:00Rather than governing for and on behalf of the peo...<I>Rather than governing for and on behalf of the people, Mr Putin's authoritarian government, like its totalitarian and imperial forerunners, believed "the people are a risk".</I><BR/><BR/>All stated believe the people are a risk, and so do all those who are on top who got their by manipulation not merit. This is a fundamental thing for ALL states. <BR/><BR/>The difference is not in who they consider an enemy or a risk, the difference is what they can do about it, or how they can act on what they believe. <BR/><BR/>The US leadership has always resented and hated that it was bound in ways that kept it from making sweeping changes. A state which does not have this limitation, like Russia, has a lot more tricks in its bag because there are no limits other than their pragmatic beliefs.Artfldgrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13594241837693535704noreply@blogger.com