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2013-03-24 Europe

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Posted by tipper 2013-03-24 14:58|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Western politicians who struggle to understand Vladimir Putin should bin intelligence reports and buy some good biographies of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas I. Putin is a classical Russian nationalist; his rule is autocratic (to the gratification of the majority of his subjects) and he has re-forged the historical alliance between the government and the Orthodox Church by imposing socially conservative laws and repressing the homosexual-rights intifada. Like Catherine the Great and Tsar Paul he has Mediterranean ambitions. Unlike them, he faces negligible opposition from a bankrupt European Union and a geopolitical illiterate in the Oval Office who makes Jimmy Carter resemble Bismarck. We should not be surprised if, by the time the EU collapses, the Mediterranean has become a Russian lake.
hat tip to Insty

Posted by AlanC 2013-03-24 19:05|| 2013-03-24 19:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Wha hoppened to my link?

http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/opinion/comment/gerald-warner-cyprus-caught-in-proxy-war-between-old-enemies-1-2854584

Posted by AlanC 2013-03-24 19:06|| 2013-03-24 19:06|| Front Page Top

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