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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans
for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be
limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI
all over again?
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lunarchick
- 05:24pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4702
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Putin meets Bwsh next Sunday. This week Bwsh has 3 summits ....
visits a few Euro Counties ... (not the UK) ... in Brussels on
Wednesday.
Wonder if protesters will greet him with a Kyoto Cheer ?!
lunarchick
- 05:27pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4703
of 4719)
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A 'comedy' plays on aussie tv ... Bwsh stars ... this
look-alike-actor-Bwsh is talented, can act, sing and dance! No doubt
digging for script material the writers will take time to visit the
Bwsh ancestral line C20th.
lunarchick
- 05:44pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4704
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Bush/EU
lunarchick
- 05:46pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4705
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Putin
lunarchick
- 07:03pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4706
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http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,504471,00.html
Bush given idiot's guide to Europe President receives
special tuition to shed his ignorant image when he crosses the
Atlantic
lunarchick
- 07:04pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4707
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. First, they acknowledge, he must persuade Europe's leaders that
he is not a buffoon.
lunarchick
- 07:08pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4708
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Bwsh has done a lot for Europe already .. it's found
itself!
lunarchick
- 07:10pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4709
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http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,504375,00.html
Russia - socio-cultural
lunarchick
- 07:14pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4710
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"""Russia was and remains a network of what Hosking calls
patron-client networks. The patron/protector might be a boyar, a
tsar, a president, a minister, a businessman, a criminal or abbot;
the effect is the same, to undermine what fragile national
institutions or laws exist on paper. One of Russia's tragedies
is that its rulers have often understood this, that it would be
better to devolve power to representative institutions, assemblies
and judges, rather than to individuals. But they have always drawn
back, terrified of the vastness of their country, the volatile
passions of its people, and the difficulty of defending its borders
without tight personal control; under pressure from patrons and
protectors who do not want to lose privileges; and repeatedly
convinced, against all lessons of history, that absolute monarchies
or dictatorships can ram through radical reforms without reforming
themselves.
Sifting the sixteenth-century tsar Ivan the Terrible's
bloody insanity from his statecraft, Hosking accuses him of
'inaugurating a tradition that in order to unite and mobilise,
Russian rulers had to be harsh and overbearing, even to violate
God's law, to the extent of risking disunity and demoralisation, and
of undermining the ideals which the monarchy itself professed...
thus was launched the peculiarly Russian style of governance: a
huge, diverse and vulnerable empire resting on personal
powerbroking' """ (above)
lunarchick
- 07:20pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4711
of 4719)
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