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| Market Drop May Temper Rus Georgia Moves |
| 2008-09-15 |
| When it comes to containing Russia, the invisible hand of the markets may be the West's most potent weapon. Tightening access to international credit and mounting stock losses are hurting Russian billionaires as well as state- owned corporations, prompting calls by businessmen to heed Western complaints over Kremlin policy in Georgia. The head of the country's biggest business association, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, met President Dmitry Medvedev, urging him to take ``anti-crisis'' measures. ``The stock market is plunging, capital is fleeing, there is a severe shortage of liquidity in the banking system, prices for many core exports are falling and inflationary pressures are strengthening,'' the business group's Alexander Shokhin said today in a live televised Kremlin meeting. Current policies ``may turn out to be inadequate,'' he said. After rejecting Western appeals not to recognize breakaway Georgian regions, Medvedev last week signaled compromise for the first time. He agreed to implement a European Union-brokered cease-fire and pull troops back into the disputed territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Mevedev told the gathering of Russian billionaires that the government doesn't want ``either confrontation or isolation.'' |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #2 THis article is just more MSM-Net evidence that RUSSIA DOUBTS ITS LT ABILITY TO RESIST NEW NATIONAL DESTABILIZ + BREAKUP VEE RADICAL ISLAM, and that by the RUSSO-GEORGIAN CONFLICT > RUSS is actually "hedging" agz a perceived WORST-CASE SCENARIO, i.e. Islamist defeat of Russia + Islamist Asian Takeover. GEORGIA = RUSS WAS PDENIABLY BULLYING THE US-NATO/EU IN ORDER TO ENTICE SAME TO SET UP A MIL PRESENCE AROUND ITS BORDERS, IN ORDER TO CYA RUSS ARSE AGZ ANY FUTURE ISLAMIST-INDUCED BREAKUP OF RUSSIA, ESPEC AGZ ITS OWN CURRENT ANTI-US ALLY FUTURE NUCLEAR IRAN. RUSSO-GEORGIAN CONFLICT > IMO IS NOT "RUSSIA VERSUS US-NATO/EU" BUT MORE SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH "RUSSIA WANTS THE US-NATO/EU IN ASIA"! E.g. Think 19th Century FRANCO-GERMAN WARS [Bismarckian], RUSSIA = FRANCE, ISLAMISM = "YOUNG TURK" IMPERIAL GERMANY, + RUSSIA = FRANCE DESIRES TO SET UP A "MAGINOT LINE" IN ASIA TO PRELUDE ITS OWN PERCEIVED FUTURE-STRATEGIC DEFEAT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-09-15 22:10 |
| #1 Of course not. They want capitulation and a sphere of influence. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-09-15 21:32 |