13-06-2010, 07:35 PM
Peter Presland Wrote:Paul Rigby Wrote:It's certainly cynical enough to be plausible. And the US would have to give its permission...I'd say it has a pretty solid ring to it. It's like that hard to find piece of jig saw that slots in perfectly - perfectly with that extended lead up, puntuated by long silences and flurries of posturing, to the UN resolution.
I find myself making major adjustments to where I thought we were at geo-politically. Looks to me like Russia is easing itself/being eased and placated and bribed/threatened - whatever, into a sort of acquiescence with the US/UK/NATO world view - like an offer has been made that cannot be realistically refused.
Oh dear.
And then there was one: China
The amazing thing is, Russia has been here (or hereabouts) before, most notably in the late 1980s, when Gorbachev received all sorts of promises from Bush I, none of which the US foreign policy establishment had any intention of keeping.
Can Boris really be that stupid? Or is it the case that Moscow feels it has no option but to acquiesce in its own destruction?
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