"Fight scrambles strategic map of Europe; New conflict raises an old question" by Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune | August 16, 2008
The NYT's international arm, as the Boston Globe is its step-child.
BERLIN - .... Russia never liked the expansion of NATO.
Would you have liked to have been encircled and strangled, AmeriKa?
In the 1990s, it was too weak to resist; today, in the Caucasus, Russia is showing off its power and sending an unmistakable message: Georgia, or much larger Ukraine, will never be allowed to join NATO.
Translation: The Russians will defend against USraeli aggression!
GEORGIA STARTED THIS, Times!!!
The implications of Russia's action reverberate well beyond that, from the European Union's muddled relations with its key energy supplier, Russia, through Armenia and Azerbaijan in the south, to Ukraine and Moldova.
This region has everything the West and Russia both covet and abhor: immense reserves of oil and gas, innumerable ethnic splits and tensions, corrupt and authoritarian regimes, pockets of territory which have become breeding grounds or safe havens for Islamic fundamentalists.
I think it is an insult to the Russians to place them in the same league as the radical Zionist psychopaths infesting the AmeriKan government and driving its policies!
As a result, the region has become the arena for competition between the Americans and Europeans on the one hand, and Russia on the other, over how to bring these countries into their respective spheres of influence. The answer will play out not just in the European Union, but along its new eastern frontier, in once-obscure places like Moldova and Azerbaijan.
The EU - as ever, slow and divided - has offered few concrete proposals in order to bring the countries of what Russia calls its "near abroad" - Belarus, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Caspian - closer to Europe. Russia insists that it should protect ethnic Russians and Russian citizens in those countries - a point that President Nicolas Sarkozy of France seemed to concede this week in a Kremlin appearance alongside President Dmitri Medvedev.
Translation: Sarkozy sees the on-the-ground truth of the situation, as opposed to the lying and misleading AmeriKan MSM!
Farther west in Poland, American negotiators Thursday dropped resistance to giving the Poles advanced Patriot missiles in exchange for stationing parts of a missile defense system there.
The U.S. did that because of the Georgian invasion, as they guide us into WWIII!
The Russian ambassador to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin: "The fact that this was signed in a period of a very difficult crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States over the situation in Georgia shows that of course the missile defense system will not be deployed against Iran but against the strategic potential of Russia," he told Reuters.
Yup.
The Russians aren't stoo-pid, even if the Zionist AmeriKan press wishes them to appear so to us.
"The reality is that international relations are changing," said Pawel Swieboda, director of DemosEUROPA, an independent research organization based in Warsaw. "For the first time since 1991, Russia has used military force against a sovereign state in the post-Soviet area. The world will not be the same."
Translation: The ZIONIST Neo-Cons and their world domination plans are no longer going to have free reign in this world!!!!
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