28-11-2010, 01:47 PM
Hmmm. Food for thought isn't it?
Wallberg is another writer I take seriously but I'm unconvinced about the judgements evidenced in this article. It complements that Rick Rozoff article I posted about in Jan's "Nato Missile Shield:Why?" thread, but with a different take.
Wallberg posits a possible return to what he charcterises as a 'Eurasian track' allegedly pursued prior to the Medvedev era. I find that a bit simplistic. In spite of Putin's impressive 2007 speech about multi-polarity there were plenty of indications even then that Russia was angling for a major rapprochement with NATO. There are even those in the West who have Putin down as a long-term Western SIS asset all along - I have a now defunct web-site to that effect archived somewhere.
I think they're both right about the the Internal Russian Elites power struggle though - with the Russian military the big - and maybe unpredictable - obstacle to any serious cosying up to the US/NATO
Wallberg is another writer I take seriously but I'm unconvinced about the judgements evidenced in this article. It complements that Rick Rozoff article I posted about in Jan's "Nato Missile Shield:Why?" thread, but with a different take.
Wallberg posits a possible return to what he charcterises as a 'Eurasian track' allegedly pursued prior to the Medvedev era. I find that a bit simplistic. In spite of Putin's impressive 2007 speech about multi-polarity there were plenty of indications even then that Russia was angling for a major rapprochement with NATO. There are even those in the West who have Putin down as a long-term Western SIS asset all along - I have a now defunct web-site to that effect archived somewhere.
I think they're both right about the the Internal Russian Elites power struggle though - with the Russian military the big - and maybe unpredictable - obstacle to any serious cosying up to the US/NATO
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"
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"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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