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]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 David http://h_david.instablogs.com http://h_david.instablogs.com David
I think to explore the West’s dark wartime history and then interpret the present can only lead to hollow perceptions. How can you expect the new age trapped in old wars to face new challenges? I just heard, Israel and Syria are ready to talk. Hezbollah is now having veto power in the Lebanon government. 100 nations are ready to completely ban cluster bombs, of course, US is not yet ready, or say prepared, for it, but still, there is this beginning.

The fact is, the new world doesn’t need West. The new world doesn’t need Russia. The new world doesn’t need War, cold or hot. Now, don’t talk about oil, and the web West, OPEC and Russia are weaving to repeat history. Oil is dead. And so is the Soviet era. Nations form, nations break, just like what happens in families. Humans were and can never get out of this vicious cycle. Tibet is angry, Abkhazia is angry, Georgia is angry, Palestine is angry – is there anything we’ve learnt from history that can dilute this anger? No.

The solution doesn’t lie in history. History never had a heart big enough to give potion to warmongers, neither had the stomach to nurture indigestible truths for long. Change!]]> Well, history is very deftly made a political weapon here. The truth is, first, the world, especially the West, is and was never blind and second, Russia was never considered a threat, rather a flickering guiding light to meet the objectives already laid. Even if Russia would never have existed, West would have created its own lighthouse to guide it in the gyrating ocean of illusionary fear. (Kremlin can take is vice versa…no issues)



I think to explore the West’s dark wartime history and then interpret the present can only lead to hollow perceptions. How can you expect the new age trapped in old wars to face new challenges? I just heard, Israel and Syria are ready to talk. Hezbollah is now having veto power in the Lebanon government. 100 nations are ready to completely ban cluster bombs, of course, US is not yet ready, or say prepared, for it, but still, there is this beginning.



The fact is, the new world doesn’t need West. The new world doesn’t need Russia. The new world doesn’t need War, cold or hot. Now, don’t talk about oil, and the web West, OPEC and Russia are weaving to repeat history. Oil is dead. And so is the Soviet era. Nations form, nations break, just like what happens in families. Humans were and can never get out of this vicious cycle. Tibet is angry, Abkhazia is angry, Georgia is angry, Palestine is angry – is there anything we’ve learnt from history that can dilute this anger? No.



The solution doesn’t lie in history. History never had a heart big enough to give potion to warmongers, neither had the stomach to nurture indigestible truths for long. Change!

]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Anil http://anilm.instablogs.com http://anilm.instablogs.com Anil Even at the cost of pains to eyeballs, this thesis of the New Cold War by the illustrious old Kremlin hand makes a compelling reading. Despite the fact, it runs into near about 3300 words, the post has succeeded in drawing parallels in the course of history of twentieth century. But are we willing to learn any lesson from the history? Often the political rulers couch their dishonest dealings under the cover of political expediency. We arise from slumber only when the water level reaches to an alarming point. One wishes that to save the mankind from extinction the political leaders start learning lessons from the history.

]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Kim http://kimzigfeld.instablogs.com http://kimzigfeld.instablogs.com Kim
Instead of cultivating friendships and alliances, treating Ukraine and Georgia as equals, Russia instead simply wants to subjugate and conquer them. That’s more hypocrisy! When Russians deal with the U.S. they complain that they are treated as second-class citizens, yet they impose exactly that treatment on Ukraine and Georgia.

By the way, the people of Georgia have just spoken loud and clear, handing a landslide victory to the country’s pro-West, anti-Russian government.

http://russophobe.blogspot.com/2008/05/landslide-in-georgia.html

It’s just the latest in a string of repudiations, including Ukraine and Serbia, that show the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of Russia’s neo-Soviet dictatorship.]]> It’s amazing to me that Russians don’t understand the precedent they are setting in Georgia and Ukraine. If Russia has the right to annex these states, or even to meddle in their affairs, then NATO has the right to annex Chechnya, and certainly to meddle in its affairs. It seems that Russians, steeped in neo-Soviet propaganda, don’t realize that they lack the military potency to issue such provocations — and this is the same attitude that characterized Soviet behavior.



Instead of cultivating friendships and alliances, treating Ukraine and Georgia as equals, Russia instead simply wants to subjugate and conquer them. That’s more hypocrisy! When Russians deal with the U.S. they complain that they are treated as second-class citizens, yet they impose exactly that treatment on Ukraine and Georgia.



By the way, the people of Georgia have just spoken loud and clear, handing a landslide victory to the country’s pro-West, anti-Russian government.



http://russophobe.blogspot.com/2008/05/landslide-in-georgia.html



It’s just the latest in a string of repudiations, including Ukraine and Serbia, that show the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of Russia’s neo-Soviet dictatorship.

]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Manuel http://manuel18.instablogs.com http://manuel18.instablogs.com Manuel Imagine that the Cold War had ended not with the triumph of the West but its collapse. Imagine that it was the capitalist, not the communist system which had proved impossibly inefficient, and that it was NATO that dissolved in a shambles, not the Warsaw Pact, and that it was America that broke up, not the Soviet Union. Imagine that a new government comes to power in Washington, determined to import the best features of the socialist system and to learn from the mistakes of the past. Imagine too that the overwhelming majority of Americans regard the Soviet Union as a friendly country.

Imagine if Adolf Hitler defeated the Soviet Union in World War II, would the defeat of the Soviet Union have ultimately led to a total Nazi victory in Europe? One thing is for certain; there are a lot of ‘what ifs’ that can be considered. There are many forks in the road where one can speculate what would have happened but I have to question why all Soviet Russia topics make it seem like Russia was better off when Stalin was around?]]>

Imagine that the Cold War had ended not with the triumph of the West but its collapse. Imagine that it was the capitalist, not the communist system which had proved impossibly inefficient, and that it was NATO that dissolved in a shambles, not the Warsaw Pact, and that it was America that broke up, not the Soviet Union. Imagine that a new government comes to power in Washington, determined to import the best features of the socialist system and to learn from the mistakes of the past. Imagine too that the overwhelming majority of Americans regard the Soviet Union as a friendly country.



Imagine if Adolf Hitler defeated the Soviet Union in World War II, would the defeat of the Soviet Union have ultimately led to a total Nazi victory in Europe? One thing is for certain; there are a lot of ‘what ifs’ that can be considered. There are many forks in the road where one can speculate what would have happened but I have to question why all Soviet Russia topics make it seem like Russia was better off when Stalin was around?

]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Dennis http://j_dennis.instablogs.com http://j_dennis.instablogs.com Dennis
Having said so, US is doing nothing different in Europe. the way US is spreading its tentacles in Europe to outdo Prussian interests and helping all the Baltic nations, morally and financially, to play a role that their economic weight actually allows them to. At the same time US luring them with EU membership only to add its more and more cronies against Russia is what Russia considers a threat to its sovereignty. And to add salt to the injury, US comes with Missile Defense Shield and many more. Hence the Next cold war is in the making and perhaps inevitable. No lesson learned form the history... no reminisce of dreadful past but driving it to cultivate new grudges. disgusting!!! for both - Russia and the US.]]> this liberator and oppressive story is in vogue for long time and each side is propagating the same - some way or the other. Now Russia making it stronghold to annex Ossetia and Abkhazia is power rife and world still asks whether we have won those imperialistic instincts of past, and of course the answer is big NO. Particularly, Russia is hell bent with this in Arctic and now Georgia pays for its anti Russia rhetoric.



Having said so, US is doing nothing different in Europe. the way US is spreading its tentacles in Europe to outdo Prussian interests and helping all the Baltic nations, morally and financially, to play a role that their economic weight actually allows them to. At the same time US luring them with EU membership only to add its more and more cronies against Russia is what Russia considers a threat to its sovereignty. And to add salt to the injury, US comes with Missile Defense Shield and many more. Hence the Next cold war is in the making and perhaps inevitable. No lesson learned form the history... no reminisce of dreadful past but driving it to cultivate new grudges. disgusting!!! for both - Russia and the US.

]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Dursun http://a_dursun.instablogs.com http://a_dursun.instablogs.com Dursun
See how Medvedev has looked towards East, Not West, on his first foreign visit. And if US continues with its pointless tactics, Russia can easily give it a blow while it goes down in the Middle East bog.]]> Russia doesn’t need West’s help. In this context, it would be interesting to see how the west deals with new tactics applied by Russia to fight (or create) energy battles. Another important thing – it’s no more Putin’s Russia, it’s now Dimitry. And it’s beyond my comprehension, why Russia can’t be looked as an ally? Have you ever tried to know what Russians think about the so-called ‘Putin’s Russia’? Putin brought stability. Yes, it was a war, but as every war demands blood, Russians too paid. The west’s New Cold War is with Iran, not Russia. Russians are not at all talking about war.



See how Medvedev has looked towards East, Not West, on his first foreign visit. And if US continues with its pointless tactics, Russia can easily give it a blow while it goes down in the Middle East bog.

]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathan-p.instablogs.com http://jonathan-p.instablogs.com Jonathan
Russians have been made to feel like the villains who bought every mishap happening after World War II. The uni-polar world has left so place for Russia to be anywhere near the glory which it used to enjoy just few years ago. Of course people have started forgetting that but still like every youth it takes some time to realize that your golden years have gone.

And I really don’t see any New Cold War happening; I haven’t read the book. Cold War was fought for ideology. No more there is a threat that Communism is going to throw businessmen in front of power-aggrandizing-red-tapism.]]> I totally agree with the author that history will always be used to see ourselves as the “right and just”. But History is misused only because we have given it power to guide us; take away that power it will end up being nothing more than fiction which is even ashamed of admitting itself to be a fiction.



Russians have been made to feel like the villains who bought every mishap happening after World War II. The uni-polar world has left so place for Russia to be anywhere near the glory which it used to enjoy just few years ago. Of course people have started forgetting that but still like every youth it takes some time to realize that your golden years have gone.



And I really don’t see any New Cold War happening; I haven’t read the book. Cold War was fought for ideology. No more there is a threat that Communism is going to throw businessmen in front of power-aggrandizing-red-tapism.

]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Mayorga http://mayorga15.instablogs.com http://mayorga15.instablogs.com Mayorga
Massive arm deals with India, Indonesia, Venezuela, in central Asia, and Iran that not only gave massive push to Russian economy but put yet another battle ground in Making for US. Therefore, gradually both are going terse with each other making two different poles of opinion which will forcibly collide. If history repeats itself, what would happen to this planet this time? So this is time to learn a lesson from the past, otherwise blast in the past will prove powder keg for a new one to make a history again.]]> There were and are conflicts – on and off stage. These two, US and Russia, have always indulged in wars, be it of word or the real ones. However, the proxy wars have wider implications and impacts. If US is gaining ground in Europe and making EU strong against Russia, Russia is not watching as a mum spectator and is fighting on the other fronts. Russia has transferred the fatigue to US in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.



Massive arm deals with India, Indonesia, Venezuela, in central Asia, and Iran that not only gave massive push to Russian economy but put yet another battle ground in Making for US. Therefore, gradually both are going terse with each other making two different poles of opinion which will forcibly collide. If history repeats itself, what would happen to this planet this time? So this is time to learn a lesson from the past, otherwise blast in the past will prove powder keg for a new one to make a history again.

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