|
|
You cannot post here - you can only read.
Here is the
link to the new forum:
|
Post Reply 
|
Page <1234> |
| Author |
 Share Topic Printable Version Google Delicious Digg StumbleUpon Windows Live Yahoo Bookmarks reddit Facebook MySpace Newsvine Furl Topic Search  Topic Options
|
||
Sarmat 
Immortal Guard 
Joined: 31-May-2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 3115 |
 Post Options
 Quote Reply
 Topic: USA/NATO vs Russia - Analytical thread startedPosted: 16-Jul-2008 at 16:52 |
||
|
Ok, I'll try to do it when I have some more free time. But I looked several times for all the news aka "celebration of the conquest of Estonia" in the Russian internet and nothing came out...
|
|||
|
ΣαυÏομάτης
|
|||
 |
|||
|
rider
Immortal Guard
AE Editor & Pet Platypus Joined: 09-Aug-2004 Location: Estonia Online Status: Offline Posts: 4720 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 17-Jul-2008 at 11:04 |
||
|
I doubt our people would make that up - the part of population who is reading regularly Russian news is too large for that to happen. And it can't be a propaganda campaign if your people don't know of it... Anyways, back to the topic people! |
|||
|
There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force. |
|||
|
|||
|
Bankotsu
Colonel 
Joined: 27-Feb-2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 511 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 18-Jul-2008 at 06:57 |
||
|
The missile defense scheme and the sharpening of US-Russian geopolitical tensions
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/miss-j18.shtml Reverting to old illusions http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080717/114221778.html U.S. radar in Czech Republic: betrayal of national interests http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080716/114072528.html KICKING SAND IN RUSSIA’S FACE http://www.ericmargolis.com/arc Russia's energy drive leaves US reeling http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central Edited by Bankotsu - 18-Jul-2008 at 12:41 |
|||
|
|||
|
Bankotsu
Colonel
Joined: 27-Feb-2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 511 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 22-Jul-2008 at 16:50 |
||
|
Russia’s "New Order" of security relations incorporating the US, Russia and the European Union :The Medvedev proposal
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? |
|||
|
|||
|
Bankotsu
Colonel
Joined: 27-Feb-2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 511 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 25-Jul-2008 at 15:17 |
||
Moscow must answer U.S. shield with Cuban 'spy' site - analysthttp://en.rian.ru/russia/20080723/114761709.htmlRussia could place bombers in Latin America, N.Africa - paperhttp://en.rian.ru/russia/20080724/114821813.htmlRussian expert warns against nuclear bombers in Cuba http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080724/114852486.html
|
|||
|
|||
|
Bankotsu
Colonel
Joined: 27-Feb-2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 511 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Aug-2008 at 07:07 |
||
Is Tskhinvali the centre of the world?Sir Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) - Reader in Geography at the University of Oxford, Director of the London School of Economics and long-serving Member of Parliament - is usually credited with being the founder of political geography. Deeply imbued with very British ideas about the need to maintain the balance of power on land to preserve hegemony at sea, Mackinder famously argued in 1904 that Eurasia was the geographical pivot of world history, and that control over Eastern Europe would lead to control of it and therefore of the whole world. Mackinder's writings have had enormous influence, which continues to this day: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's former National Security Adviser, owes much to him for his view that America must establish control over Central Asia in order to consolidate its world hegemony. Less well known is that the height of Mackinder's political career was when he was appointed British High Commissioner to South Russia (the Caucasus) in 1919 by the Foreign Office under the former explorer, Lord Curzon... http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080807/115877646.html |
|||
|
|||
|
pikeshot1600
Immortal Guard
Joined: 22-Jan-2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 4232 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Aug-2008 at 14:24 |
||
|
The writer of that article hasn't progressed beyond Mackinder's 1904 view. By the 1940s, Mackinder had revised the geopolitical model in light of both contemporary political reality, and also new technologies that superceded a good deal of his former viewpoint. The most influential Euro-American geopolitician was Nicholas Spykman: The importance of the Heartland has been superceded by that of the Rimland, and Russia has no worries about anyone attempting to wrest control of central Asia from a rejuvenated and developing Russian sphere of influence there. The successful policies of containment 1950-1990 were derived from Spykman's theories.
Edited by pikeshot1600 - 08-Aug-2008 at 16:33 |
|||
|
|||
|
Bankotsu
Colonel
Joined: 27-Feb-2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 511 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Aug-2008 at 14:40 |
||
|
I sometimes wonder why doesn't USA and Russia join forces to form the most powerful bloc in the world.
Now USA and NATO on one side, Russia and China on the other. How about a USA and Russian alliance? Who can stop them? Edited by Bankotsu - 08-Aug-2008 at 14:41 |
|||
|
|||
|
pikeshot1600
Immortal Guard
Joined: 22-Jan-2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 4232 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Aug-2008 at 16:44 |
||
The differentiation of "Heartland" and "Rimland" hold the keys to understanding that Russia and North America have more incompatible interests than common ones.
The location where their "macro-political interests" coincide is in Europe where both have an interest in preventing a renewal of a power base there that might challenge or threaten their many other vital interests. The US and USSR did not expend treasure and blood to destroy German power for no reason.
Expectations of too much cooperation on the part of these two powers (US/Russia) would IMO be misplaced. Both powers can be expected to play off China and India against the others. Not to worry....all the big boys know this will be the game going forward.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Bankotsu
Colonel
Joined: 27-Feb-2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 511 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Aug-2008 at 16:52 |
||
|
I think USA allied with Russia is a strong combination.
Edited by Bankotsu - 08-Aug-2008 at 16:53 |
|||
|
|||
|
gcle2003
Immortal Guard
Joined: 06-Dec-2004 Location: Luxembourg Online Status: Offline Posts: 7011 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Aug-2008 at 18:43 |
||
Who can stop them doing what?
|
|||
|
Citizen of Ankh-Morpork
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied - Sir Humphrey Appleby, 1984. |
|||
|
|||
|
Bankotsu
Colonel
Joined: 27-Feb-2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 511 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 09-Aug-2008 at 05:00 |
||
Call the shots in international politics. |
|||
|
|||
|
gcle2003
Immortal Guard
Joined: 06-Dec-2004 Location: Luxembourg Online Status: Offline Posts: 7011 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 09-Aug-2008 at 12:18 |
||
|
Well, that's relatively easy. China and the EU have no problem outbribing the Security Council. The US is too broke to compete[1] and Russia can't match either China or the EU with spending overseas, the regime isn't secure enough to do so.
[1] As was evident in the SC negotiations in the run-up to the Iraq war.
|
|||
|
Citizen of Ankh-Morpork
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied - Sir Humphrey Appleby, 1984. |
|||
|
|||
|
rider
Immortal Guard
AE Editor & Pet Platypus Joined: 09-Aug-2004 Location: Estonia Online Status: Offline Posts: 4720 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 09-Aug-2008 at 17:32 |
||
|
Russia allying with the US? I can't see that happening unless Russia stages a coup in the States (I wouldn't be surprised).Â
|
|||
|
There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force. |
|||
|
|||
|
pikeshot1600
Immortal Guard
Joined: 22-Jan-2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 4232 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 09-Aug-2008 at 19:49 |
||
 The Russians would be driven insane by the hopeless complexity of American politics....both outside and inside the Pentagon! None of them would survive the cocktail parties.  |
|||
|
|||
|
gcle2003
Immortal Guard
Joined: 06-Dec-2004 Location: Luxembourg Online Status: Offline Posts: 7011 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 09-Aug-2008 at 20:45 |
||
I assume you mean the Americans couldn't survive the Russian parties. Going on a understandably somewhat hazy memory of such things, the Russians would consider American parties just a snifter.
|
|||
|
Citizen of Ankh-Morpork
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied - Sir Humphrey Appleby, 1984. |
|||
|
|||
|
pikeshot1600
Immortal Guard
Joined: 22-Jan-2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 4232 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 09-Aug-2008 at 21:07 |
||
No, I was thinking about the politics conducted at those cocktail parties. A couple of liters of raw vodka would be the Russian's refuge from such head-spinning insanity, especially in DC.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Bankotsu
Colonel
Joined: 27-Feb-2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 511 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 15-Aug-2008 at 05:51 |
||
|
Poland, US Reach Preliminary Deal on Missile Shield
http://voanews.com/english/2008-08-14-voa14.cfm |
|||
|
|||
|
Hobhouse
Janissary 
Joined: 03-Aug-2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 15-Aug-2008 at 07:06 |
||
|
I am curious as to what Russia will actually do in response to the missile defense system.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Sparten
Immortal Guard
Totalitarian Iconoclast Joined: 18-Mar-2006 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 5012 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 15-Aug-2008 at 08:52 |
||
|
Add new targets to its warplan. A misslile defence system is useless against the Russians, for many reasons, mainly since it would obviously be attacked as a part of a general strike.
|
|||
|
The Germans also take vacations in Paris; especially during the periods they call "blitzkrieg".
|
|||
|
|||
|
Post Reply
|
Page <1234> |
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
USA/NATO vs Russia - Analytical thread started