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2006-04-27 Europe

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Posted by john 2006-04-27 19:05|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 first ten lines (duplicated) need trimming

Posted by john 2006-04-27 19:08|| 2006-04-27 19:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Guardian claptrap. Russia has never been, in any substantive way, in "the Western orbit". He and his backers have always been in business solely for themselves and any overlap was merely happenstance. Hand-wringing bullshit.

Posted by Gruque Chuting6279 2006-04-27 19:14|| 2006-04-27 19:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Left? It's never been in the orbit despite all the European attempts to make it so.

Russia is Russia. It's in it's own orbit. It's not some weak nation that needs Europe or the US.

Posted by SPoD 2006-04-27 19:22|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-27 19:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Will it be captured by an angry Mars or a sleek Venus? Stand by your TeeVee.

Posted by 6 2006-04-27 19:26|| 2006-04-27 19:26|| Front Page Top

#5 PRAVDA > Russia and only Russia will decide whom is its equal - doesn't bode well for the future of Russo-Chinese relations, Eurasianism-Asianism-Orientalism, nor for inter-country relations vv the Shanghai Cooper (SCO).

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-27 19:31|| 2006-04-27 19:31|| Front Page Top

#6 The millions of ethnic Chinese moving into Russian territory doesn't bode well for relations.

Posted by john 2006-04-27 19:40|| 2006-04-27 19:40|| Front Page Top

#7 China will look to undo the 'unfair' treaties of Peking and Aigun, where Russia annexed its Far Eastern territories.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-04-27 19:58|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-27 19:58|| Front Page Top

#8 The millions of ethnic Chinese moving into Russian territory doesn't bode well for relations.

Reminds one of another Western country with millions of its neighbors to the south moving in.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-27 20:33|| 2006-04-27 20:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Remember that Russia is schizophrenic, with a European face and an Asiatic face. They are never comfortable too long with one or the other. On the plus side, when they wear their Asiatic face, they usually lie less than when pretending to be Europeans.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-27 20:57|| 2006-04-27 20:57|| Front Page Top

#10 I think of Janus when I think of Russia.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-04-27 20:59|| 2006-04-27 20:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, Russia never was in the west. Hell, I fulfilled my college's "non-Western Civilization" requirement with Russian History.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-04-27 21:02|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-04-27 21:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Who else are they supposed to sell to their weapons to? By US thinking, they're supposed to sit on their hands and forego all that cash, and watch while others make billion dollar deals. It's like asking Donald Trump to build single family dwellings in the middle of Manhattan. Ain't gonna happen.
They are a former superpower. They have the capability to produce sophisticated weapons. This is simple supply and demand. Get over it.

Posted by rafael 2006-04-27 21:51|| 2006-04-27 21:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Eat sh*t and die Fukuyama.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-27 22:37|| 2006-04-27 22:37|| Front Page Top

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