Pushing Russia’s Buttons

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ONCE AGAIN, THE TEXAS COWBOY BLUNDERS

Thanks for the article Mr. Michael Hirsh.

Apparently this administration forgot the lessons of the "Cuban Missile Crisis". When Russia threaten to put missiles off the Florida coast in Cuba, President Kennedy lost it, and rightfully so. Kennedy said no missiles on our door step. And Kennedy was ready to start a nuclear war if Russia didn't change course. (Live Free or Die). Now this administration forgot the lessons of 1961 and does the same thing to the Russians. Then how do you expect Russia to act?

From a U.S perspective, missiles on Georgian soil is a good idea. Better there than Russian missiles in Cuba. But where this administration messed up is that it made a public spectacle of talks about missiles on Russian soils instead of "QUIETLY AND SUFFICIENTLY BUILDING UP GEORGIAN MILITARY ON ONE HAND, WHILE GOING THE EXTRA MILE TO CALMING PUTIN'S NERVES WITH THE OTHER HAND. AND WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT, THEN PUT THE MISSILES IN PLACE."

The real bad news is Senator McCain if elected would be a far worse President then Bush. Political skill and savvy on the International stage is NOT this administration's strength, and definitely not "SHOOT-FIRST, THINK-SECOND " McCain. McCain's solution to every international problem (born out of bad GOP policy) is to throw young American lives into action then cut their benefits if they make it home.

GOD Help Us!

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ONCE AGAIN, THE TEXAS COWBOY BLUNDERS

Apparently this administration forgot the lessons of the "Cuban Missile Crisis". When Russia threaten to put missiles off the Florida coast in Cuba, President Kennedy lost it, and rightfully so. Kennedy said no missiles on our door step. And Kennedy was ready to start a nuclear war if Russia didn't change course. (Live Free or Die). Now this administration forgot the lessons of 1961 and does the same thing to the Russians. Then how do you expect Russia to act?

From a U.S perspective, missiles on Georgian soil are good idea. Better there than Russian missiles in Cuba. But where this administration messed up is that it made a public spectacle of talks about missiles on Russian soils instead of "QUIETLY AND SUFFICIENTLY BUILDING UP GEORGIAN MILITARY ON ONE HAND, WHILE GOING THE EXTRA MILE TO CALMING PUTIN???S NERVES WITH THE OTHER HAND".

The real bad news is Senator McCain if elected would be a far worse President then Bush. Political skill and savvy on the International stage is NOT this administration's strength.

GOD Help Us!

"... it seems pretty clear that Bush and Co. can do little to force the Russians out of Georgia." But, in fact, it appears that an agreement will soon be in place for Russian forces to indeed withdraw from Georgia (excluding S. Ossetia and Abkhazia). Mr. Hirsh, it seems, would do well to change his forecasting model.

Dixin! Great! You started to cite here the ideology of russian nazism. What nation will leave in RF when the "factor of nationality" will be finally destroyed? :-) Everybody know, I think. :-)

http://duxin.livejournal.com/ - here is my viewpoint in Russian

The territorial integrirty of Russian Federation is based on the notion that sertain nations have not the right to have their own independent state.
So ideologically the RF is the Nazism country. Their policy toward small nations inside the empire last 500 years was the intricate mix of genocide and ethnocide.
The same policy is used now - they are now erasing from the map the national autonomies and proceed with the fascist occupation of Chechnya.
All these tacktics are now widely supported by the russian population of RF. It is also the same thing what the Stalin was doing with small nations.
And the doings of Stalin are now also widely supported.

Russian position towards the nothern parts of Georgia - Abkhazia and Ossetia is very simple. Russians use the rightless status of these small nations to devour them.
Abkhazia and Ossetia are de facto in state of the ethnic war with Georgia since the collapse of the USSR. Nobody will give them political protection. As a result they
are the vassals of RF.

What the Georgia needs now is a simple thing - the good air forces and the air defence. No way to run the war without good aviation. I hope the Georgia will get this in short time.
The "civilized world" has made the big mistake by not providing the Chechnya with real air defence and recognition. As a result we have in Kremlin and in RF what we have -
sadistic killers who feel their full impunity.

I live in Russia. I see all. Dear author, your position is extremely subjective. Reding and listening it, I think about the Cold War wich I call now the Cold Inform War. Propaganda of the false democracy of the USA is the alter ego of American agression throughout the World.
Pavel Duxin, Russia, Saratov

I live in Russia. I see all. Dear author, your position is extremely subjective. Reding and listening it, I think about the Cold War wich I call now the Cold Inform War. Propaganda of the false democracy of the USA is the alter ego of American agression throughout the World.
Pavel Duxin, Russia, Saratov

Georgia made the mistake of provoking Russia, and clearly the Bear was very ready. Then again it sounds like Russia kept pushing to try and get the response they got. And now Russia will occupy sections of what was Georgia.

And now Russia is involved in our part of the world by selling close to a billion dollars worth of arms to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who now thinks he can sink the American 4th Fleet which is stationed in the Caribbean. Russia is selling arms to Iran so she can defend her nuclear program, and has offered nuclear capability to Cuba.

The Bear has come out of the cave and is on the move, while Nato and the US talk, talk, talk.

Russia has agreed to both sides withdrawing their armies only because it has no intention of pulling its forces out. It sees an opportunity to make Georgia disarm unilaterally. Russia will claim that its army in Georgia is peacekeepers, policemen or voluntary militia of the South Ossetians and keep it in. The only way to ensure that both sides withdraw their armies is to send in an international peacekeeping force, no member of which is from Russia, Georgia or any group in Caucasus. That force should have the arms and authority to enforce withdrawal of armies.
Georgia was the lightning rod for Eastern Europe. Russia focused its economic, propagandistic and military bullying on Georgia, lightening the pressure on countries of Eastern Europe. In the 1990s Russian military planes were flying over the Baltic states and Russia was creating sudden stoppages of trade in them. After the Rose Revolution in Georgia this activity shifted there. Now that the lightning rod is broken Eastern European countries should expect a lot more economic and military trouble from Russia.
An old anecdote from the post-communist countries. An American, a German and a Russian are boasting in a bar. The American says: ???On my farm I drive a Ford, when I go to work I drive a Lincoln and when I go abroad I drive a Cadillac.??? The German answers: ???When I am at home, I drive a Volkswagen, at work I drive a Mercedes and in other countries I drive a BMW.??? The Russian says: ???I drive a Zhaporozhets at home and a tractor at work.??? ???And when you go to another country???? the others ask. ???When I go to another country I drive a tank,??? the Russian answers.