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| Vladimir Putin sends emphatic message of global importance |
| 2008-08-12 |
| By seizing the opportunity to pound Georgia with air strikes and military incursions, Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, is sending an emphatic message with global consequences. The curtain has fallen on the era when Nato steadily expanded into Eastern Europe and onwards to embrace former republics of the Soviet Union - and Russia was able to respond with nothing more than bluster. Moreover, Mr Putin has demonstrated that the Kremlin will use force to protect the 25 million Russians who inhabit the Soviet Union's successor states, well beyond the mother country's borders. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #5 China should do the same in Siberia. Patience. If the Russians decline to populate that part of the world, the Chinese are fully willing & able to do so. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-08-12 12:54 |
| #4 RUSSIA RESERVES ITS MILPOL NATIONAL- AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS ABROAD, BY ANY AND ALL MEANS NECESSARY, INCLUDING BY MILITARY FORCE + WARFARE, AND AS SOLELY DETERMINED BY RUSSIA ALONE AS TO ITS INTERESTS. China should do the same in Siberia. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-08-12 11:57 |
| #3 So, Georgia is a proxy for Ukraine? |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-08-12 10:08 |
| #2 "YELTSIN DOCTRINE" ? "Let's get drunk until we piss ourself" is a doctrine? |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-08-12 08:01 |
| #1 VARIOUS POSTERS > argue/opine that Georgia is a US-NATO protectorate hence Dubya + NATO cannot NOT do anything to help agz Russia unless are wiling to risk international humiliation and degradation. Lest we fergit, YELTSIN DOCTRINE = PUTIN DOCTRINE = VLADVEDEV/MEDVEDEV DOCTRINE? - RUSSIA RESERVES ITS MILPOL NATIONAL- AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS ABROAD, BY ANY AND ALL MEANS NECESSARY, INCLUDING BY MILITARY FORCE + WARFARE, AND AS SOLELY DETERMINED BY RUSSIA ALONE AS TO ITS INTERESTS. * PUTIN DOCTRINE SCOPE > iff a major Terror attack(s) occurs agz Russia as emanating or originating from any foreign sovereign nation outside of Russia [read - CONUS-CANUSA-NORAM], RUSSIA - IFF IT SO DECIDES/CHOOSES TO - RESERVES ITS NATIONAL RIGHT TO UNILATERALLY USE MILITARY AND NUCLEAR FORCE TO ATTACK AND DESTROY SAID SAME TERROR BASE(S), EVEN WITHOUT NEED OF ANY PRE-CONSENT FROM SAID SAME SOVEREIGN NATION(S). Not that Russia will, but it wil do what Rus alone determines is needed or required to be done to serve and protect Russ-specific security and interests. IOW, RUSSIA IFF IT CHOOSES CAN LAUNCH A SURPRISE "BOLT-FROM-THE-BLUE" CONVENTIONAL, NUCLEAR, ANDOR SPECOPS ATTACK AGZ ANY TERROR GROUP LOCATED IN ANY NON-RUSSIAN FOREIGN COUNTRY WITHOUT GIVING ANY ADVANCE WARNING. *MEDVEDEV > RUSSIA WILL STAY ACTIVE IN THE CAUCASUS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-12 00:35 |