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• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • Mikki, nice try. I do speak fluent russian and check russian news once in a while. We may argue till dawn about inaccuracies and corporate and political biases in western press, but this is not the point. The point is that russian press does not even come close.

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • Beckwolf, but of course. There are rules and regulations and competing interests, what not. At the bottom of all this is the desire of georgia to join nato, that's all i am trying to say. And I do not think it really matters in this context whether this is a well-informed decision or not.

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • I'd take eight years of worst foreign policy and a president with the lowest approval rating ever over putin's russia in a heartbeat. Oh, wait, but I did already. And russian "another way of life" seemed to be lately "lots of money for a few, while everyone is marching back to the soviet union".

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • did you actually try to look into a map? oh, wait, the map was also printed by the us media i guess, never mind.

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • "leave us alone, don't prey your nose in what do not belong to you" yeah, exactly... and georgia does not belong to you... it belongs to us, don't prey your nose, that's exactly their way of thinking, i guess. Same applies to Ukraine, and who's next? Poland? Chechs?

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • Oh, don't worry, they will. Last time I checked, both presidential candidates had quite tough words for russia, there is a chance they'd act upon them. It does not look like Russia is going to find an all-forgiving friend in either Palin or Biden as well.

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • Well, actually Casey seems to be pretty accurate. The wholehearted enthusiastic cheering for Putin which is indeed quite loud in Russia (but still grossly exaggerated by state-censored media, of course) does show a few things, indeed... Not very flattering ones, though.

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • I was actually referring to a joyous but unfortunately yet unrealized picture of bin laden being hung. Why is everyone so eager to shift attention to Iraq? We did enter Afghanistan and ousted Taliban, was that wrong too? Noone seems to bring that topic...

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • Nah, I am a liberal and proud of it. So what? Hanging a guy who sends planes into buildings still sounds like a right thing to do. Reflecting and accepting the fact that we may have fucked up more than once is also OK, I am still waiting for Russia to do it just once.

• Medvedev: Russia won't be forced into isolation

  Fri Sep 19, 2008
  • Oh, yes, I am pretty sure we'd attack Mexico right away.