Ceist Beag
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Completely agree with him regarding the media coverage - the BBC news is starting to look like Sky News these days with their bias and sensationalism (or maybe they have been for a while and I'm only noticing it now!!). Does anyone else feel that maybe Russia aren't getting a fair balance in the media?Isn’t it high time - not least given the current developing energy crisis in Europe - that we all realise that it is in the EU’s interest to have stability and territorial integrity respected in Russia?
For example, what on earth has the EU to gain by the Czech Republic and Poland allowing a US missile system on their territory? Indeed, do they belong emotionally to Europe or to America? Have they even consulted any of us about this decision? And what are its consequences for all of us?
It’s time we took a new look at the whole area of EU-Russian relations. For example, the Cold War attitude of the western media towards Russia this week has been extraordinary.
They did invade it csirl - both sides had agreed to a peace keeping force within this area to try and let politics figure out a way towards agreement for all. Georgia broke this agreement by sending in the army, simple as that.The author is a bit one sided - he says it was the Georgians who invaded South Ossetia. It seems to have escaped him that South Ossetia is part of Georgia.
It seems to have escaped him that South Ossetia is part of Georgia.
Is OP privy to other sources of info, maybe from South Ossetian relatives.
They did invade it csirl - both sides had agreed to a peace keeping force within this area to try and let politics figure out a way towards agreement for all. Georgia broke this agreement by sending in the army, simple as that.
They did invade it csirl - both sides had agreed to a peace keeping force within this area to try and let politics figure out a way towards agreement for all. Georgia broke this agreement by sending in the army, simple as that.
Does anyone else feel that maybe Russia aren't getting a fair balance in the media?
Hold on, a missile shield in Cuba carries no cred whatsoever. Shielding who? Only the Cubans. Certainly not shielding Russia. The '63 crisis was of course a different kettle of sardines, in that case they were pointing nukes at the US right on its doorstep.Anyway back to the shield issue, I don't really know enough to comment on how it is supposed to safeguard us all from the nasty Iranians but I can just imagine the Americans reaction if Russia announced a missile shield being built in Cuba. Sometimes it feels like we are stuck in a time-warp!
Hold on, a missile shield in Cuba carries no cred whatsoever. Shielding who? Only the Cubans. Certainly not shielding Russia. The '63 crisis was of course a different kettle of sardines, in that case they were pointing nukes at the US right on its doorstep.
Having said that, hard to see this Pole/Czech shield being merely anti Iran. It is surely capable of being used against Russia.
GWB ....is a master geopolitical strategist.
I know all you paddy anglo-phobes out there in AAM space hate to admit it, but GWB has played an absolute blinder in foreign policy. He has the Poles and Czechs eating out of his hand, he has the Ukrainians and Georgians begging to join him. His one misjudgment was that he underestimated the strength of Islamic sectarian division in Iraq. Thankfully he did, otherwise he might not have done the right thing. As it is 5 years later and with much more US sacrifice than anticipated, Iraq is at last coming good.
Hey, I hate the way he swaggers and talks with a Texan drawl, but credit where credit is due, he is a master geopolitical strategist. Barak Obahama just doesn't cut it in this arena, IMHO.
lol...thanks Harchibald....that's the best laugh I've had on here in months !!!
A bit simplistic <snip> all Georgia did was relocate some of its army to a different part of their country.
Hold on, a missile shield in Cuba carries no cred whatsoever. Shielding who? Only the Cubans. Certainly not shielding Russia. The '63 crisis was of course a different kettle of sardines, in that case they were pointing nukes at the US right on its doorstep.
Having said that, hard to see this Pole/Czech shield being merely anti Iran. It is surely capable of being used against Russia.
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