October 2, 2008
[the impeachment of] George W. Bush ... ought to top the nation’s agenda.... Because the past six years provide sufficient evidence that President Bush is not up to handling another crisis.And I maintain it is reckless .... to assume that there will not be some major national or world crisis withi...
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Over on our sister blog, openRussia, Patrik Shirak takes both McCain and Obama to task for their simplistic views on this summer's Russia-Georgia crisis. During last Friday's debate, the Republican stuck to his hawkish, cold warrior line on the Kremlin, while Obama declined the opportunity ...
go to article »October 1, 2008
I was extremely disappointed with comments made by both Senators McCain and Obama at the presidential debate concerning Russia.Monday US Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke to the National Defense University. A portion of his speech concerned Russia. Strikingly, the words spoken by Gates came ac...
go to article »September 30, 2008
It’s too fitting. A year after the US, the winner of the Cold War, spun into financial meltdown, Russia, its vanguished foe, succumbs to the same malady. What makes Anders Aslund’s essay even more noteworthy is, that, unlike the warmongers among the pundit class and the Pentagon who beli...
go to article »September 25, 2008
I agree with David Stromberg that Russia’s invasion of Georgia was, among other things, caused by fear. Not fear of Georgia - a country with a weak army, small population, etc. - but of U.S. influence in countries that once belonged to the Soviet Union and were, therefore, puppets of ‘Mo...
go to article »September 24, 2008
The beatroot hosts a discussion of the Polish-Russian-American relationship in the aftermath of the Russian-Georgian conflict. ...
go to article »September 22, 2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili claimed today that his government was not doing any lobbying in the United States. This, in spite of widely reported news that Randy Scheunemann, John McCain’s foreign policy advisor, has lobbied extensively on behalf of Georgia. It is no surprise that J...
go to article »September 19, 2008
The Russian invasion of Georgia marked the start of a new Russian foreign policy; it is not a policy truly aimed at the small countries surrounding it. It is, essentially, aimed at the United States. In that regard, Putin and Medvedev simply decided to launch a new Cold War. According to some expert...
go to article »September 13, 2008
Daily News reports on Palin's interview with ABC:Palin's comments went further than GOP presidential nominee John McCain on the war option if Georgia or Ukraine is invaded by Russia, a nuclear power.Here are her exact words:GIBSON: Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO? PALIN: Ukraine...
go to article »September 12, 2008
The Ivanov Report dissects the Washington Post's recent coverage of Russia: “What was somewhat surprising, though, was the level of the Post's attention to the topic: between August 9 and September 2, the Post has published a whopping 37 editorials and op-eds (and I might have missed s...
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