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2012-02-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Why Russia Loves Arab Tyrants
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Posted by Chique Unock2033 2012-02-05 09:57|| || Front Page|| [336079 views ]  Top

#1 That's why the push to develop energy distribution. Norway has an unemployment rate of 2.5%. Each Norwegian is $100,000 in the black in their government fund. Energy is the way out for the USA and Russia. Should they let things fall apart it may take years to rebuild. That will make things much worse for Russia. Russian interests are to the west not the east. China is no bussomed buddy. With the election in Russia the public is in no mood for economic or polical troubles. Europe needs the energy. Greece needs the revenue as does Turkey and Israel. Build and repair.
Posted by Dale 2012-02-05 11:50||   2012-02-05 11:50|| Front Page Top

#2 You can tell Putin is a genius by the fact that he's not supporting the coming new regime so as to get on their good side

(a) Since Russia made "kinetic action" impossible, the current regime is going to survive.
(b) The alternative to Assad are Ikhwan---and they don't have a good side.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-02-05 15:25||   2012-02-05 15:25|| Front Page Top

#3 See also CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [China Economic Blog] IRAN-CHINA TRADE EXCEEDS US$40.0BILYUHN IN 2011 [up US$16.0B from 2010], besides also another repor US$40.0Bilyuhn or so worth of bilateral Oil-Gas dev contracts in lieu of Western firms.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-02-05 20:21||   2012-02-05 20:21|| Front Page Top

#4 A popular form of insanity involves doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.

Oh... do you mean like knee-jerk support of people calling themselves "The Opposition" without digging a little deeper and seeing that they are Salafist Sunni Fundamentalists?
Posted by Secret Master 2012-02-05 20:25||   2012-02-05 20:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Russia is making the point that they won't abandon their customers (at least politically). Good for business, bad for relations with the West.
Posted by Rjschwarz 2012-02-05 21:31||   2012-02-05 21:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, it is so charming that Vlad, the most westernized of the Czars, has discovered that the west has success precisely because unlike the Russians we don't usually sell out our friends. But expect him to revert to form in short order.

We should offer him a Guantanamo perpetual port treaty on Tartous and a guarantee that Israel will buy a billion dollars of Russian rifles and ammo from U.S. military aide money next year.

He would come around.
Posted by rammer 2012-02-05 23:52||   2012-02-05 23:52|| Front Page Top

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