[TigerLikesRooster]

So Putin fears that Kerry could turn out to be another Clinton. Since Russia had a really bad time under Clinton, I cannot blame them. It is just that somethow they carry some of grudge to Bush and his Republicans as well.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

China is Russia's insurance against Kerry regime!

[Mamzelle]

Russians are good at gloom and grudges. They'd be better off figuring out what to do about Beslan and the Chechyns. I wonder what is festering there.

[Cicero]

Indeed, Democrats have voiced stronger criticism of Russia. "We're concerned that Putin is getting a blank check," said Richard C Holbrooke, a former US ambassador to the United Nations who is advising Kerry. "We need good relations with Russia, but we ought to have some standards here," he said.

For the record, NO ONE has done more to damage American relations with Russia than Holbrooke, who was the genius behind clinton's attack on Serbia. When it turned out that Russia was powerless to protect its "little brothers," the Serbs, they were deeply shamed and I'm sure are still full of resentment. Weasley Clarke, Richard Cohen, and Maddy Albright all share some of the responsibility for what may have been the stupidest foreign policy move since Yalta.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Vlad hates Kerry

Geez, who doesn't? This guy rubs people the wrong way just by breathing. He is totally unlikeable.

[EagleUSA]

"So Putin fears that Kerry could turn out to be another Clinton."
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Worse than Clinton. In many ways. Putin is not so "unaware" after all. And Clinton was/is far smarter (more clever) than Kerry...

[Sender]

Russians don't know what Kerry is going to do over the next 4 years if elected. They pretty much know what Bush is going to do. Uncertainty is anxiety.

[Mark17]

Putin is due to visit China from Thursday to Saturday this week for talks with President Hu Jintao,

Jintao? Jintao? Sounds like a line from a Jackie Chan movie to me.

[struwwelpeter]

An old article from Moskovskiy Komsomolets about the Clinton-Yeltsin relationship.

[prophetic]

its one thing for a Senator to be flip-flopping while campaigning, but as the leader of the free world if (God Forbid) as President he continues with his indecisions & treachery, it will make for a Baad baad world!!

The rest of the world claims (actually its the liberal controlled media in the rest of the world) that the world hates America because of Bush. However can you imagine the chaos Kerry would introduce to the world political scene when faced with real pressure?

Just look on his face after the debate - he looks like some young schoolboy that been sent up to the principal's office for a flogging!!

[jb6]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.