08-11-2014, 01:10 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:Putin has always and openly made it clear that the Ukraine is a vital security interest of Russia - the same way, I guess, that successive US presidents have repeatedly stated that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf is a vital security interest of theirs.Even closer to home. Think of Cuba and how important it was to US interests for there not be Soviet installations there. It almost led to WW3. Fortunately there were better men in the Whitehouse in those times. There is no discernible signs of such intelligence in the Whitehouse today. The Soviet Union stood by its agreement at that time. The US never withdrew their missiles from Turkey and now NATO thinks they can place missiles right up against Russia in former Soviet states at that.
Yes, a much better example than Saudi - not that Saudi is a bad example...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14