A Respectable Russia

What everyone seems to forget is that Russia (whether it's called The Soviet Union, the USSR, Czarist Russia or the Gulag Republics of PooTinstan) IS and always has been a Terrorist Nation - in the 20th century it was the leading Terrorist State on the planet... remember?
As I've said all along, Bush attacked the wrong area of the world with Weapons of Mass Destruction - duh - look who's sitting on a pile of them right next door to Europe. The 3 Stooges (Chairman Poo Tin, Dim Medvedev and a plaster-cast statue of Stalin) took on Georgia because it only has an army of 37,000 (compared to Russia's 1.1 million). Georgia is also a key in the Caucasus region - the roots of Europe... like the Chechens, the ancient Colchis & Iberian kingdoms influenced all the primary roots of European civilization. Anyway, Stalin's plan when he was a ???commissioner of the minorities??? way back in the 1920s was to eliminate ALL the tribes of Europe & replace them with Homo Sovieticus. Ya know what I mean? It's astounding that since the second Russian occupation of Chechnya (which Chairman Poo Tin ordered in 2000) the Russians still have been unable to eliminate (& conquer) those tough mountain peoples. Ingushetia (a captive nation inside Russia) has asked for help to "liberate" it from Russia - is that a hint to the EU or NATO? Or maybe Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania should become Nuclear Powers and ???liberate??? the oppressed minorities inside the federation? Did Russia open the doors (unknowingly?) to "liberating" its own captive nations by recognizing the so-called ???independence??? of Abhkazia & South Ossetia and creating "buffer zones" inside sovereign Georgia? Or is that a trap? No one has been allowed into the newly "independent" zones of occupation under complete Chairman Poo Tin control??? what is going on there? Are the army hordes being massed there for a total onslaught on Europe??? Paris??? Berlin??? Rome??? will the veterans of the Chechen genocide be allowed to rape, plunder & ravage the Continent? I mean, where else can they go? Iran? China? Let's see what kind of "buffer zones" the Chinese will carve out of Siberia... come on European Union or NATO even - get your act together and "liberate" Yakutia or Ingushetia or Chechnya or one of the other captive nations. Question the legitimacy of this rule by those 3 Stooges. Genocide is at your doorstep Europe - so what are ya gonna do about it?

The US is playing with fire that could burn everybody. The US must stop this nonsense because it has lost so many wars and is not in a position to fight anymore. The US was defeated in Vietnam. The US and its allies cannot even defeat the rag-tag Talibans and the few ill-equiped, ill-trained and ill-organised al-Qaeda in Afghanistan while the scenario in Iraq is uncertain. The US military also faced the same defeat in Georgia. The US is also not able to face Iran. The only conclusion I can make is that the US administration consists of a bunch of lunatics.

What a shame that Valery Gergiev, directs this symphony at this place , at this time! Stalingrad and resistance of Leningrad were to fight nazis. But he plays at the same day, at the same moments than an ethnic cleansing was operating - that Georgians houses were burned and their owners send out of South Osetia where they belong. It is exactly what Russia today - a corrupted almost nazi state. Russia is becoming the ennemy of the West - we have the urgent need to contain it.

We bombed Serbia and Russia bombed Georgia. What is the difference?

Ukraine is Russia and Russia is Ukraine. Has always been and will always remain. One history, one culture, one people. ONE!

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 imposing trade sanctions on 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.

Proposition: Russia???s objective is to rule the world.
Proof: Russia seeks to restore itself to Soviet Union size by the admission of Russian leadership (calling the fall of the Soviet Union the greatest catastrophe in the 20th century, promising to protect its interests in any country by any means, including military). Russia, like other countries and people, prefers more to less. If given the choice between the Soviet Union territory and that plus one other territory Russia will choose the second option. In a choice between Soviet Union plus one and Soviet Union plus two countries again the second choice is made. Iterating this argument we get that Russia would most prefer to rule the entire world.

Perhaps Russia has sent a clear message to the world (notably to the West) that it is redeeming itself after the collapse of the Soviet Union followed by its uninvited subtle humiliation. Russia craves for respect for the state and its people.

The Russia???s intrusion of Georgia came at the time when the US signed its missile defence treaty with Poland. This constitutes a rather unusual warning to the US not to meddle with East Europe. Putin has been adamant in wanting to push and establish Russian influence over its neighbors. NATO continues to weigh the grave situation. Vice President Cheney is flying to Georgia for serious discussion. The US is considering economic sanction against Russia. All these bode poorly for a fragile peace in the world, let alone in the East Europe.

Meantime China, after a successful Olympiad unsurpassed, is monitoring the predicament carefully. Beijing will be most comfortable to stay neutral to watch the eventual geopolitical development gradually unfolded in Europe.

Will this be the prelude of the resurrection of the notorious Cold War? No more war please, has the world not seen enough of the ugly conflicts?
(Tan Boon Tee)