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| Russian Foreign Minister Acknowledges Growing Divergence With U.S. |
| 2005-12-06 |
| Russiaâs foreign minister urged the United States on Monday to take steps to arrest what he said was its declining relationship with Moscow, Reuters reported. We should stop selling air defence systems to the MM? âWe can come to the conclusion that in the whole complex of our (foreign) relations the weight of existing military and strategic links between Russia and the United States ... will be constantly declining,â Sergei Lavrov said. 's okay with me. We knew you were on the other side any way. Nice to have it in the open. Back to the good old days. âOf course we will never separate. But drifting away from each other could have irreversible consequences,â he said in his traditional end-of-the-year review published on the ministry web site. Go have a shot of vodka. He did not specify what exactly was pushing Moscow and Washington apart and said the two countries did appear to have become used to the idea that they had honest differences. A mutual interest in combating terrorism has seen an increasingly warm relationship between U.S. President George W. Bush and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. But Washingtonâs growing influence in regions once under Moscowâs domain and disagreements over several international issues â notably Iranâs nuclear ambitions â have started to tear at the closer ties between the former Cold War enemies. Lavrov suggested that it was up to the United States to show more commitment to a balanced relationship with Russia. âRussia is ready for team play based on equality, true partnership and mutual respect,â he said. âCooperation should be based on agreed and transparent grounds. What they always wanted and only got from Carter in the Cold War. Till they invaded Afghanistan. Then they found out hell hath no fury... âWe need a more decisive shift towards partnership in issues concerning the whole spectrum of threats, first and foremost the terrorist threat, and in the sphere of helping our people flourish.â Agreed. When do you plan to clean up your act in Chechnia? Lavrov urged more cooperation in reforming the United Nations and a speedy conclusion of talks with the United States on Russia joining the World Trade Organization. Russiaâs biggest concern in its relations with the United States and the European Union is U.S. and EU support for peaceful pro-Western revolutions in ex-Soviet states. Tough. You lost the war, remember? Or do we need to teach you that lesson again? Scratch the WTO after all. Such revolutions have changed governments in Georgia and Ukraine and authoritarian Belarus has been tipped as next. Russia is also concerned about Western pressure on its Central Asian ally Uzbekistan over its violent crackdown on protests in the town of Andijan in May, in which more than 500 people were killed by troops according to witnesses. Lavrov said that Russia was generally opposed to attempts to export Western-style democracy to ex-Soviet states. And whining is what they plan to do about it. And selling weapons to those regimes the frogs turn down. A winning strategy again. âWe are convinced that democratic ideals in each country should be realized taking into account history, tradition, level of social and economic development, Democracy is organized destabilisation. |
| Posted by:Spavising Ulerese5369 |
| #2 IOW, the Amerikans are beginning to realize 9-11 and Radical Islmaists is actually about SAVING AND EMPOWERING ANTI-AMERICAN EURASIAN COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM. "Natural social processes" > means Cpmmunists-for-Fascism-for-Communism Russia and Russianism/Asianism still desires to dominate the world. Unfortunately for us Americans, the "good old days" of the bipolar Cold War is what post-1989/1991 Russia and the anti-Amer agendists seek to avoid, by any means necessary, by anti-USA global nuke war if need be NLT 2020. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-12-06 21:10 |
| #1 Any artificial boost to natural social processes leads to destabilization rather than helping democracy.â So they should stick with the un-natural social processes? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-06 15:58 |