26-01-2016, 06:25 PM
Maggie, I was going to post this from The Saker. My reaction was SSDD (Same Shit Different Day). :
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The Good Guy (Putin) vs. the Bad Guy (Medvedev) thingy has run its course with me. Something else is going on. It reminds of the time when I actually thought Colin Powell needed to step up to appose the war because surely he would know how dumb it was. ::facepalm::
The Saker's article is actually pretty good, as far as it goes. But it gives a false choice. Yes, Putin is something of a nationalist as long as his class of his preferred oligarchs maintain their (and his) wealth. Therefore, he won't nationalize the RCB. I would guess that Russian assets outside Russia would be frozen. I don't know he could pull off breaking away from the world economic order. There are a lot of weapons like lowering the price of oil. AND China would have to agree. Good luck with that.
So my sense is that Putin can't do much at all if he were so inclined which he isn't.
: The Good Guy (Putin) vs. the Bad Guy (Medvedev) thingy has run its course with me. Something else is going on. It reminds of the time when I actually thought Colin Powell needed to step up to appose the war because surely he would know how dumb it was. ::facepalm::
The Saker's article is actually pretty good, as far as it goes. But it gives a false choice. Yes, Putin is something of a nationalist as long as his class of his preferred oligarchs maintain their (and his) wealth. Therefore, he won't nationalize the RCB. I would guess that Russian assets outside Russia would be frozen. I don't know he could pull off breaking away from the world economic order. There are a lot of weapons like lowering the price of oil. AND China would have to agree. Good luck with that.
So my sense is that Putin can't do much at all if he were so inclined which he isn't.
"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl