31-03-2010, 10:03 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:If ever the people of the post communist Soviet Republics wanted to know what illness western style "democracy and freedom" had in store for them, the western backed plundering of the 1990's that gave rise to an even more powerful Red Mafiya and the arrival of dozens of Oligarchs was the antidote to their delusion.
.... But the problem is that is the plundering Oligarchs - largely loyal to those 'Western Values' of that Chatham House Pratt on another thread - that wield decisive power - not the people of those Ex-Communist Republics - and so it goes on.
I'm impressed with Paul's Essay too - talk about prescient. The trajectory of global US/NATO policy wrt to Russia really is crystal clear to anyone prepared to remove the blindfold.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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