Another Geopolitical Triumph For Vladimir Putin!

[alice malice]

The Cold War is over. Long over. Russia is not that important to the
world and certainly not to the US. It is important. All that Gas and
Oil, but not that important in the grand scheme of things. Does Putin
hope to make it more important? Sure. Will he succeed? No.

The US has enormous advantage in what's happening in trade, banking,
energy, etc. and as  Trade is going to decline in the next couple of
decades and this may ramp up tension as nation states try to find a
way to deal with income inequality and education, health, and so on,
the US will be in the best position. Europe, even without the Ukraine
issue, is still a basket case. I'm positive on India and Brasil, but
the bric is broken and Russia and China will suffer the end of the
commodities super cycle.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:45 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> In his articles in The Nation, Cohen has focused his attention on the
> Press and how its coverage of Russia has been degraded, how the media
> has become a tool akin to its function during the cold war. The only
> cold war going on is in the press. In reality, in the facts, there is
> no new cold war.  Good job SFC.
>
> But Cohen, because of his focus, often exaggerates the part Russia
> plays in US politics and geopolitics: "And what of Barack Obama’s
> decision to send only a low-level delegation, including retired gay
> athletes, to Sochi? In August, Putin virtually saved Obama’s
> presidency by persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to eliminate
> his chemical weapons. Putin then helped to facilitate Obama’s heralded
> opening to Iran."
>
> http://www.thenation.com/article/178344/distorting-russia#
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:37 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Cohen, whose reputation on the issue is quite good,  doesn't go as far
>> as you would like. So you resort to those whose reputations, as you
>> stated, are questionable or even not worth associating with.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
>> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:39:10 -0400
>>>  alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> But what I find most amusing is that the sources Thomas provides, as
>>>> he admits, are less reputable as they dig into what they call  the
>>>> facts.
>>>
>>>
>>> Seems that I am being far too careful. After having pointed to articles in
>>> the Guardian and the Nation and referenced renowned experts Stephen F. Cohen
>>> and Russ Bellant, I stated that I cannot vouch for Steve Weissmann's
>>> (ex-Ramparts) credentials. Furthermore, the Youtube clip I named as coming
>>> from a not very reputable source contains some paroles I do not wish to be
>>> associated with -- but Rohrabacher's questioning of Nuland before the House
>>> Foreign Affairs Committee is surely authentic.
>>>
>>> Immediately the usual suspect comes along, calls into question *all* my
>>> sources and says that I have admitted so myself.
>>>
>>> Sad.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas
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