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Who’s To Blame For The Georgia/Russian Conflict?

America!

I’m starting to think we should have let Russia die after the Cold War.  Instead of investing billions in aid.  Did we win the first Cold War only to have to deal with a Second Cold War 20 years later?

Is the United States the fox to Russia’s scorpion?

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2 comments

1 Dave Schuler { 08.29.08 at 9:33 am }

“let Russia die”

Could you expand on that a bit for me, Kevin?

I count our aid to Russia as a couple of hundred million.  Unless you’re counting the IMF bailout as U. S. aid (which would put you right in line with what anti-US international leaders have been saying for decades).

There would have been a Russia regardless of what we’d done.  I think we erred but I suspect not in the way that you do.

The only question is what sort of Russia would there have been?  The fears were either a period of chaos during which Russia’s nuclear arsenal was up for grabs or that Russia would become a nationalist dictatorship which is much what happened anyway.

2 jrogge { 08.29.08 at 11:54 am }

This is just a childish reaction to our criticism of their attack on Georgia. The claims obviously have no merit. in truth, we should have kept our mouths shut and not said a damn thing considering we’re in an occupation ourselves that is controversial. This isn’t our business and honestly I would like to see a truly capitalist America emerge. We should let them kill each other, and on top of that sell each side the weapons to do it. Make some cash. When they’re done destroying what little they have we offer to buy that from them too. F*&k these people seriously. I am sick of us spending monetary and human resources on these f*&kers in the world. Let them eat cake!

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