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2008-08-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-17 12:48|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 In other words, pre-emptive surrender and appeasement are still the preferred British response to an assertive / aggresive tyranny.

Damn, deja vu all over again.

Posted by AlanC 2008-08-17 13:27|| 2008-08-17 13:27|| Front Page Top

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-17 16:05|| 2008-08-17 16:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Worked for Ronnie with 'Star Wars' and the military rebuild.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-17 16:47|| 2008-08-17 16:47|| Front Page Top

#4 we are constantly told we need to understand the aberrational, paranoid, mysoginist, anti-western, Stalinist urges of our enemies and erstwhile "allies". When will we say: "you sick f*cks, understand this!!"? A time comes when the apologists and sycophants must be beaten down and shamed with their enabling and rationalizing atrocities and crushing of real human rights and freedoms...and that ain't panties on the head in Abu Grahib.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-17 19:31|| 2008-08-17 19:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Russia's pride and paranoia may seem irrational, but it is real and needs to be managed.

Nonsense. It has succeeded in bullying the author and thus is a successful tacticthat will be repeated. Russia needs to be thoroughly defeated. And seen to have been defeated. By all.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-17 20:31|| 2008-08-17 20:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Again, COLD WAR > is is said that the then USSR = SOviet Union did NOT fear a unilateral US-NATO "First Strike", etc. as it did a US-NATO versus USSR-PACT NUCLEAR WAR AS INDUCED BY THIRD-PARTY, NATION-STATE OR ORG ENTITIES.

IMO RUSSIA may covertly deniably be using the GEORGIAN CONFLICT as cover for possib LT strategic failure vv FUTURE NUCLEAR RADICAL ISLAM [States + Militants-Terr groups] + ambitious CHINA. Within this scope, Russia needs to to keep Radical Islam from its CENTER, + China from its FAR EAST.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-17 20:40|| 2008-08-17 20:40|| Front Page Top

#7 CHINA + NORTH ASIA per se are now also under threat by Radical Islam

RUSSIA > FUTURE CHINA = GIANT NUKE-ARMED JAPAN versus GIANT NUKE-ARMED STARVING NORTH KOREA versus GIANT NUCLEAR-ARMED ISLAMIST STATE versus WEAK DIVIDED CHINA WID NUKE-ARMED ISLAMIST ENCLAVES/SUB-STATE(S)???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-17 20:49|| 2008-08-17 20:49|| Front Page Top

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