NP - Krugman: Petrothoughts (Via Kevin Drom)

[David Morris]

"The US is focused"?
Which US? The Banks, you mean? That chess board is all treachery.
David Morris

On Sunday, December 21, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you apply the grand chessboard, Crimea is conceded to Putin and the
> Ukraine, a pawn is perfectly positioned. Neither matters much in the
> grand chessboard, Eurasia is the middle of the board, and the US is
> focused on the Queen, that is, China, not Russia. Putin would like to
> make it about him, about Nazis and the like, but t is not about Russia
> or Nazis. Germany has some obvious weaknesses from history and the
> Nazi history, though no longer crippling, still limits Germany's
> ambition. But Germany will run for the Americans, be sure of that, and
> the neo-Nazis will be dispensed with once they've been used, as in
> Ukraine. I like Obama's soft power Castle in Cuba. Nice move,  O.
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Am 19.12.2014 um 05:56 schrieb alice malice:
> >>
> >> It doesn't much matter anyways, the Ukraine is not important and the
> >> Crimea less so,
> >
> >
> > You should tell that to Zbigniew Brzezinsky who calls Ukraine a
> > "geopolitical pivot" in "The Grand Chessboard."
> >
> > Thomas
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