Russia: Putin covers his bets (Vlad hates Kerry)

Asia Times ^ | 10/14/04 | Sergei Blagov

[Cicero]

It depends what you mean by "us." Most Americans really don't have a position on these matters. If they were truly informed, few of them would support what clinton did. He had the habit of fighting wars on the wrong side. But Bush is not clinton and clinton is not America, even if we were stupid enough to vote for him twice.

[bert]

Meanwhile, Algore and Marc Rich were aiding the Oligarchs as they siphoned off billions from the sale of Russian assets.

[jb6]

But sKerry will still have France, Germany and Spained on his side. "Hay Frenchi, wher you goin Frenchi? Kom back an fight Frenchi"

[Destro]

BUMP!

[jb6]

do about Beslan and the Chechyns.

They are, keeping sKervy from being elected. With Holbroke on his side, sKervy will change the Chechyns into a new KLA supported by the CIA.

[jb6]

It was not that Russia was/is powerless, far from it, it was a matter of Yeltsin and thus Russian interests were up for sale and not at a very high price, either.

[oyez]

Kerry has a plan and Putin ain't in it.

Russia is turning away from socialism, their fore loosing its mystique to Kamrade Kerry.

[twigs]

I think that that was a slip-up in other ways. What was Kerry doing visiting newly opened Soviet archives? Since he had such close relations with the communists following his service in VN, I think he may have been there on his own mission. I would like to know more about his trip to Moscow. Forget about Treblinka Square.

[GarySpFc]

I cannot blame the Russians for their concern about Kerry, and his view that bilateral talks with the North Koreans would be productive. Including Russia, China, and Japan in multilateral talks strengthens the US position in the region. The problem of a madman in North Korean with nukes is a major concern for all. Indeed, China just moved 150,000 troops up to the border.

[hosepipe]

[ ( Vlad hates Kerry) ]

Russians hate weaklings,,, They hated the other JFK too...
John Kennedy was hated by the Russians too... However they loved Al Gore.. becuase of familys ties to Stalin through Armand Hammar.. who supported Al's father.. Kerry is more of a MAOist than a Marxist.. John Kennedy was too dumb to be controlled like his brother Ed... Armand Hammar controlled the Gores nicely..

[Jeff Head]

Last month, Moscow promised to supply more crude oil to China, while Beijing pledged to invest US$12 billion in Russia's infrastructure and energy sector by 2020. But despite economic incentives, Beijing is yet to secure a clear commitment from Moscow to build an oil pipeline from Siberia, a long-standing issue between the two countries.

I believe in the coming upheavels, that Russia, at least at first, will play both sides of against the middle and will start with some form of major economic pact with the Chinese...over Siberia. As things worsen, that compact will fall apart because China will attempt, IMHO, to take Siberia.

The first part of that scenario leads to the creation of what I called the Coalition of Asian states in the Dragon's Fury Series.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #31

At some point, Northern China and Siberia/Russian Far East will be up for grabs.

[redgolum]

I guess what I meant is that most Russians don't see what happened in Kosovo as just the "Clinton" administration, they see it as an attack on one of their allies.

Also don't forget that some in Powell's state department were actively courting the Chechen's before Beslan. The Russians view us much the same way many Americans view them, as yesterdays enemy that today shares a common adversary.

[Jeff Head]

FYI.

[illumini]

The leader of the nationalist Rodina party, Dmitry Rogozin, said Bush and Kerry should mind their own business. "What we are doing is our own internal affair,"

Sounds like Stalin all over again. My friends in Russia are not pleased.

[illumini]

At some point, Northern China and Siberia/Russian Far East will be up for grabs.

The elites will gain power, then sell-off half the country to the highest bidder and retire in Miami.

[macrahanish #1]

I see only one bright side to a Kerry presidency.
It would have the potential to forestall, and possibly end, Hitlery's White House ambitions.

[A. Pole]

Kerry will renew anti-Serb, anti-Russian pro-Wahabi policies.

[denydenydeny]

Little wonder that Russia tried to play on the US presidential campaign in favor of the Republicans. In June, Russia announced that it supplied the US with intelligence that Saddam Hussein was planning to carry out terrorist attacks against the US. The announcement was interpreted as a sort of justification of the US-led war on Saddam, and the Kremlin's attempt to come to Bush's aid on the eve of the US elections.

Didn't help, because the MSM completely ignored this pronouncement.