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Figuring out the Bear
In the near future I’ll have a longer analysis of exactly what went wrong on the Russo-Georgian border, but for the time being I’m going to leave it to Dave Schuler at Outside the Beltway. And I think this may be our Quote of the Day when it comes to figuring out why Russia sometimes does what it does.
Is Russia, as Michael Mandelbaum, quoted in the column puts it (pooh-poohing the idea), “innately aggressive”? I don’t think so. But I do think that, like us, Russia is quite paranoid. Or, as Woody Allen once quipped, what’s a three syllable word beginning with ‘P’ that means you think that everybody’s against you? Answer: perceptive.
To take the old blast from the blogging past, go read the whole thing.
2 Responses to “Figuring out the Bear”
Dear Jazz,
Feel free to plaigiarize my assessment on the other thread.
And I mean that in the best way. : )
Take care,
sil
“How can we tame the Russian bear?”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/yourview/155250…
“Lately, George W. Bush, his bunker-sequestered Svengali, Dick Cheney, and their dutiful, hapless, jet-setting lady-in-waiting, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have gotten a taste of Russian-style “shock and awe.” Now, confounded and frustrated, their heads are spinning as they try to figure out why they're feeling so powerless in the face of Russian's recent show of unstoppable force in the South Ossetia region of Georgia, its neighbor to the south. …”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/deta…