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2016-01-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

It's time to stop hugging the Russian bear

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Posted by badanov 2016-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 “We thought we could love them into the NATO alliance, and hug them into being responsible state actors,” adds Mr. Harmer, who is now a senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War.

"We"....?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-01-10 04:37|| 2016-01-10 04:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Especially as the bear's not particularly fond of "alternate sexuality".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-10 04:57|| 2016-01-10 04:57|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 the same idiots that thought building up China and integrating it into the world economy would remove a couple thousand years of its imperialistic expansion behavior.

This toughness should come in the form of more US troops to Europe, he said

Ah, no. If they Euros are unwilling to mobilize themselves to defend themselves, there is no need to waste our resources any further. Besides, they're already surrendering to the Islamics. No need to provide more 'targets of opportunity' to their agents.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-01-10 09:04|| 2016-01-10 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to reprise Reforger, that'll get their attention.

Posted by Shipman 2016-01-10 10:14|| 2016-01-10 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Gotta have a bogeyman. Of course, there's China and all those whacky guys in the Middle East but that'd be politically incorrect.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-01-10 10:25|| 2016-01-10 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 "We thought we could love them into the NATO alliance, and hug them into being responsible state actors,"

By Love them into NATO they mean encourage ex Soviet states to join NATO and thus push the Russian paranoia to 11? By hugging them into being responsible state actors we work to destabilize the Russian client in the Middle East? Seems as if we treated Russia like a dog the last 7 years and now we're surprised the dog doesn't like it?

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-01-10 19:58|| 2016-01-10 19:58|| Front Page Top

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