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Kremlin Seeks Global Isolation…What Blasphemy!
September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Let’s start with Russia’s side of the argument: MoscowTimes.com, an opinon piece:
“U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a bizarre speech last week in which she warned that Russia’s policies are pushing the country into international isolation. She got it exactly backward. This is precisely the Russian government’s plan. I am talking about the country’s financial markets.”
It went on to claim the U.S. is seeping into “an economic black hole” and how
“the U.S. government has resorted to socialist policies by nationalizing banks and the country’s largest insurance company.”
The Russian government is calling “long-term private investment from Russians” a “breakthrough,” which will make “capital gains tax-free” and “modernize the country’s pension system”.
The main reason why Russia seeks economic isolation, however is this: “With speculative foreign money making up almost 70 percent of the Russian stock market, the value of its stocks plunged by almost 40 percent in one week
“Growth will be more sustainable” says Medvedev.–POINT taken.
For some reason CNN struck me by surprise.
According to the article, it mentions how Medvedev is responding to Condoleeza Rice’s claims that “Russia and its policies have put it on a path to isolation and irrelevance.”
He answered back saying the United States “are, in fact, pushing us onto the development track that is based NOT on normal and civilized cooperation with other countries, but on autonomous development behind thick walls and an ‘iron curtain,”
“This is not our track, and it makes no sense to return to the past.”
and ended with: “We aren’t trying to teach anyone, we want our views to be heard.”
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If Russia is truly staying isolated for economic reasons, why did they decide to make this dramatic military move by increasing contact with Venezuela?
If Medvedev is trying to come off as modern-minded president, why is he joining Hugo Chavez, the man
– with his own “criminal paradise” L.A. Times
– who is an “admirer of Fidel Castro’s Cuba” BBC News
– a man who is passionate about THE PAST.
Yet spectators around the world will wonder:
Will Russia’s newly isolated economy fix its economic situation?
Will it follow communistic ideals?
Will Venezuela and Russia become a serious military threat to the United States?
While the media builds this hype… average working Americans will wonder: What’s going to happen with gas prices?
Interesting sidenote: “Venezuela provides 11 percent of USA’s oil consumption. ” Pravda.ru
Now we Americans think, should the U.S. nationalize the oil industry?
One humerous blog poll answer was: “No. That would be communism.”
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