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2016-03-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Steve White 2016-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 See also WAFF > THE END OF RUSSIA? ... TURKEY WILL EMERGE AS A MAJOR POWER IN AREAS WHERE RUSSIA [once] DOMINATED | [News.com.AU] RUSSIA SET TO LOSE POPULATION, POWER AND INFLUENCE, [StratFor] REPORT PREDICTS.

Rise of OWG Co-Superpower TURKEY???

RUSSIA = "WEAK/DECLING" US, RISING TURKEY = RISING CHINA???

VERSUS

* WAFF > [Ria.RU] RUSSIAN ADMIRAL: "WE WILL FLOOD THE MEDITERRANEAN WID KILOS" [SSKS]. BIG ORDER ON WAY TO ENSURE SOVIET [now Russian] SUPERIORITY IN THE BLACK SEA AND MED, NO NATO FORCE WILL BE ALLOWED DOMINANCE.

* SAME > PUTIN DEPLOYS SAMS TO NORTH KOREAN BORDER FEARING [NOKOR = Kim] REGIME COLLAPSE.

IMO ARTIC also read, SSSHHH ... CCCCC DETER CHINESE DESIGNS/AMBITIONS ON RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED SAKHALIN + RUSSIA'S FAR EAST.

Darth Putin isolating the coming US-JAPAN-vs-CHINA Battlefield in KOREAS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-01 02:08|| 2016-03-01 02:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't forget Kosovo---where slick Willie listening to his EU friends convinced Russians that Drang nach Osten is on again.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-01 04:04|| 2016-03-01 04:04|| Front Page Top

#3 reinforced his navy to pursue a littoral naval strategy.

The Montreux Convention still rankles with the Russians, who feel an unfair treaty was forced upon them.

Posted by phil_b 2016-03-01 04:15|| 2016-03-01 04:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Unhappy or not, it just takes a few artillery pieces and rockets to close the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The Turkish cork is in the Russian bottle...

Posted by Steve White 2016-03-01 07:54|| 2016-03-01 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Reading 200 years of Russian history (we can start with Peter the Great) will explain Russia's strategy, or for that part much of European social-political-economic strategy. China's goes back 2000 years, but basically is the same. They had a much earlier head start on national identity and empire building.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-01 08:25|| 2016-03-01 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Russia does not have the option of assuming that the West’s interest in the region comes from good intentions.

Can't blame 'em. Would you trust this man?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-01 16:08|| 2016-03-01 16:08|| Front Page Top

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