Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow earlier this month. Michael Klimentyev/Kremlin/RIA Novosti/Reuters
Is US Bent On Bringing Down Russia? Some In Kremlin Say Yes. -- Fred Weir, CSM
Many leading foreign policy advisers to Putin say that Ukraine is merely an excuse for US-led sanctions, and that Washington is bent on 'regime change' in Russia.
Moscow — There are at least two schools of thought in the Kremlin about what Russia can do in the face of a US-led "sanctions attack," which is only growing deeper with each passing week.
One school, tactically embraced by President Vladimir Putin himself yesterday, is that conciliatory rhetoric, signals of non-aggression toward Ukraine, and massaging the divergent economic interests between European countries and the US, may succeed in blunting further sanctions, if not rolling back the ones already imposed.
But another point of view, held by many leading foreign policy advisers, is far more pessimistic, and even fatalistic. This perspective argues that Russia's schism with the US will keep on widening no matter what happens in Ukraine.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 23, 2014
Sanctions finally find Russia’s Achilles heel -- William E. Pomeranz, Reuters
MH17 plane crash: Can Russia be blamed for Ukraine rebels? -- Joe Boyle, BBC News
Will MH17 air crash damage Russia's Putin? -- Dmitri Trenin, BBC
Vladimir Putin’s Truth Problem: Five Holes in the Russian President's Story -- Bill Powell, Newsweek
Obsessing About Gaza, Ignoring Syria (And Most Everything Else) -- Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
Gaza crisis: Arab divisions over Hamas making Kerry's job even tougher -- Howard LaFranchi, CSM
Israeli Airline With Missile Defenses Goes to Israel When US Carriers Won’t -- Lee Ferran, ABC News
Iraq's 'Islamic State' is quite happy to rule by terror -- Dan Murphy, CSM
Life in Capital of a Caliphate: Harsh Rule, but a Level of Order -- New York Times
The farce continues in the latest Iran nuke talks -- Amir Taheri, New York Post
Leopoldo Lopez’s jailing is a symptom of a sick Venezuela -- Lilian Tintori, Washington Post
Is Mexico’s Drug War Finally Over? -- Jan-Albert Hootsen, Vocativ
The World Is Returning to Normal -- Michael Leeden, PJ Media
5 comments:
I love the Media. All the articles are about "why is this happening" and "the casualties are horrendous". I'll tell you (media) what, why don't you try some reporting, you know like, asking people directly things like, why do you spend all your foreign aid on war making assets? Why do you put military facilities underneath and in hospitals and schools? Why do you order your own people not to evacuate an imminent battle area?
On the casualty meme, just wait till real war breaks out (and it's coming, big and bad) the casualty rates in Gaza, Ukraine, even Syria are nothing compared to will be.
Perhaps I should match my comments to the relevant post (such as below), then I might make at least a little sense.
Are there any major signs of a new grat war? I have seen some but i want to know your perspective. Wonder if it will begin in asia or is there somwere else? If you have time James can you give me links to your sources and your perspective about when, where and what can lead to a real big war?
James .... you would have loved my father. He saw it all .... Ukraine famine, Stalin purges, World War II, the Cold War. His generation was the last one to know what all consuming war and destruction really means .... not Syria/Ukraine/Afghanistan/Iraq .... from his perspective these conflicts are pitifully small to what man is really capable of .... what a real war is all about.
My father would say that you make perfect sense.
Rhaegar,
Perhaps my most important source is reality. No spin, no narrative, no ideology, and no propaganda has ever defeated it in the long run. There are signs everywhere.
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