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If so, I think its time for a Rocky Balboa / Ivan Drago rematch so we can settle this!
I hope not. I read an article recently (I think it was in US News?) Anyway, the article said that governments have pretty much accepted the fact that the new MO for governments around the world is one of "cotradictions" and "double standards." From what I can recall from the article, is basically meant that governments can justifiably say one thing and then turn around and do the opposite and still deny they did. Nothing new, but I thing the gist was this: "W can be elected in 2 questionable elections with major problems, but still go public and criticize Russia and the Ukraine, etc. for having questionable elections, etc." Basically, the rhetoric is way out of control and hypocricy is now the OFFICIAL politics of the new century. Why can't everyone just get along? Bush is dangerous.
The double standard seems to be the order of the day as regards politics.
So are you saying we should accept things as they seem on the surface, Cathexis? Don't know if that would be wise with the speed of deteriorating relations. One minute Putin is chowing down BBQ at a Crawford hoe-down, next he's being accused of being a wannabe dictator. Makes me a tad suspicious of the real motives behind these hurled accusations.
Putin has shown to be just as two-faced as Bush, and there's only room for one two-faced cowboy in this town.
no but brilliant politics by putin, bush has go at him so putin supplies uranium to iran brilliant politics the US shudn't underestermate (or if you like 'misunderestermate') russia
Probably, because the Kremlin refuses to be another puppet of the White House. I doubt sanctions will pass since European countries no longer really give a damn about what the US says anymore. Sanctions might pass but no one will follow them.
The most obvious reason is because the U.S. no longer has any real political leverage anywhere in the world. It gave that up when it invaded a sovereign nation without just cause. No longer can the White House go telling other nations to stop their nuclear programs, or to stop aggression in their own backyard (read: Chechnya). The White House simply has absolutley no credibility to act as "the moral compass of the world" that it so much wants to be.
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