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Titolo: At Last Russia Started Speaking Without Prompters

At Last Russia Started Speaking Without Prompters
President V. Putin’s speech at the Munich Conference on international
security became a pivotal point of the global processes which have been
going on for the last 15-20 years. In terms of its historical importance,
Putin’s address in Munich is comparable to W. Churchill’s Fulton speech,
but its significance is of the opposite sign. Whereas the Cold War began
after Churchill’s speech, that of President Putin affected positively the
dynamics of the global transition from the unipolar to the bipolar world.
An analysis of the destinations of Putin’s recent visits – China, India,
Arab countries – shows clearly that now Russia makes a serious bid for
leadership in the group of countries opposing the US claim for the
absolute global hegemony. 
Russia has demonstrated its readiness to lead the countries of the second
global pole, the one formed on the basis of the opposition to the US
politics relying on force. But why is it Russia and not China, for
example? And why does the US act so aggressively? 
This is a natural geopolitical process. Generally, all the classic writers
who dealt with geopolitics agreed that there always existed a law of a
fundamental division – the conflict of land and naval powers. The
worldview of the US political elite is based on the notions derived from
this concept, and it has no vision other than that. Admiral A. Mahan, a
prominent US geopolitical strategist, wrote in the late XIX century that
the US was a naval power with a “manifest destiny”, whose first stage was
the strategic integration of the American continent, and the second one –
the establishment of its global dominance. No US President or strategic
planner has ever departed from this concept. 
There should be no illusions concerning the US attitude towards Russia. A.
Mahan suggested the following military-strategic approach to Russia, the
key continental power which he described as “a vast uninterrupted mass
whose center cannot be broken”: in his view, struggle with Russia was the
main long-term strategic goal of the US as a naval power. Eurasian powers
(Russia, Germany, and China) were to be “strangled in anaconda coils”. 
Is it surprising that now we see ourselves being encircled by US military
bases and the US missile shield system? 
The outcome of the implementation of this strategy was predicted in the
1920ies-1930ies by K. Haushofer, a German geopolitics guru. He opined that
the US geopolitical expansion along the West-East line would, upon its
completion, create a potential for the US global dominance. 
To forestall this development, Russia is trying to regain its position of
a center of the global politics. This is its historical predestination.
Russian thinkers defined the historical mission of our country as bringing
truth and justice to the world, since conscience is the geopolitical code
of Russia (the same role is played by profit in the case of the
Anglo-Saxon nations). 
It is natural to ask: why did President Putin, having chosen a fairly
opportune moment to do so, slam the politics of the US and the US-led
NATO? Both the tone and the content of his speech were unexpected not only
for the US but also for the Russian public. Let us examine the situation. 
First, despite being the core constituent of two civilizational spaces –
the Orthodox Slavic and the Eurasian ones – Russia has been neglecting its
historical mission for 15 years, trying to get integrated into the Western
civilization. Geopolitically, it is absurd, since never in history any
original global civilization has got absorbed by its antipode voluntarily.
It must be getting obvious for the Kremlin that this course leads nowhere. 
Secondly, as a result of fundamental transformations (including the
disintegration of the USSR according to the US blueprint), Russia sank to
the level of third-rate (failed) states in terms of the main development
indicators (the quality of life, the human potential, the social
inequality, the life expectancy, etc). 
Thirdly, due to high fuel prices and the impoverishment of its population,
Russia got rid of the debt dependency and now relies on its own resources
to form its budget. At the same time, the Russian Stabilization Fund and a
part of Russia’s currency reserves work for the US economy, helping to
keep the US dollar afloat. Therefore, to some extent now it is the US who
depends on Russia. 
After all of Russia’s attempts to join the Western community and all the
concessions it made in strategic, international, and economic matters,
Russia finds itself encircled by a network of military bases and targeted
by thousands of missiles. The missile defense system is deployed in the
proximity of our borders, and parts of Russia’s geopolitical space – the
former Soviet Republics – are broken away from it. 
Worse than that – Russia is threatened that the NATO military machine can
be used against it in case it downscales the oil and gas deliveries to
Europe (Senator R. Lugar). It is included in the list of major targets for
preventive nuclear strikes (R. Gates, US Secretary of Defense). This
agrees with the US geopolitical doctrine. 
But it seems that now the Kremlin is running out of patience. 
Fourthly, V. Putin’s speech shows that the reorientation of Russia from
the West to the East is under way. The formula which we have been
promoting for years – no conflicts with the West, alliance with the East –
is materializing. We got the first realistic assessment of the threats to
Russia’s security in V. Putin’s speech. Putin said that the US
military-strategic plans are a challenge to Russia and threaten its
security. Currently, urgent political measures are necessary to put
Putin’s views to practice, and such measures are already being taken. 
In a way, V. Putin’s speech is a response to the recent statement by R.
Gates, the US Secretary of Defense, who bracketed Russia with N. Korea and
Iran in the notorious list of “rouge” countries. 
I think that Gates words were taken seriously in the Kremlin. His
“accomplishments” as the CIA Director involved to the demise of the USSR
have not been forgotten. Under these circumstances, Russia’s top priority
is its defense potential. According to the Russian military command, the
combat readiness of the Russian army has improved considerably over the
past decade. This may be true, but Russia’s military capability relative
to the US and NATO is declining. NATO builds muscles by admitting new
countries to the alliance and by upgrading its arsenals. In the meantime,
we are going down. Fighting international terrorism remains the top
priority set for the Russian armed forces. Yet, this is not a task for an
army, or not a prime one. 
A typical objection is that we are unable to compete with the US in what
concerns the defense spendings. But actually we do not need to. Whereas,
for example, the US can launch an attack against Russia with 300 warheads,
we need to have a guaranteed capability to hit the US cities with some 30
ones, the ratio being 10:1. This is enough. For the US, the corresponding
level of damage is unacceptable. 
How can we counter a conventional-means attack? At present up to 500 scuds
can strike Russia simultaneously, and this is more than our air defense
can handle. Consequently we need to come up with an asymmetric response.
And this concerns not only the weapons area, but politics and economy as
well. Serious thought must be given to these issues. 
Of course, we should not invite NATO troops to our territory as S.B.
Ivanov, then Minister of Defense, did recently. On the contrary, we should
send a clear message that deploying elements of the missile defense in
Europe or admitting any of the CIS countries to NATO would put an end to
our ties to the alliance. 
The following political measure is also an option: we can conclude a deal
with China according to which Russia will help it in the case of a US
aggression against the country, and China will help Russia under similar
circumstances. We need not specify what help it would be, but a political
statement of the kind would be feasible. The possibility of intensifying
the relations with Iran and other Arab countries should also be
considered. Russia must use the positive results of V. Putin’s visits to
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan as the basis for moving towards a
friendship and cooperation treaty specifying that the territories of any
of the countries involved will not be used against the interests of others
joining the treaty. Various measures are possible – what is important is
to look for solutions, to work, and to overcome completely the inertia of
the course of the Eltsin epoch. 
Finally, I must say I am satisfied that, after all, Moscow started
speaking in its own voice on in the international arena. We do not need
any prompters from across the Atlantic Ocean. 
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Amalric: "Io non capisco come in sezione non l'abbiano ancora sprangato..."
Tonibaruch: "Chomsky... uno svitato filonazista"
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Tonibaruch: "Hai per caso uno sfogo purulento tutto capillari e siero
presso il buco del culo e il cazzo di coniglio tuttoraggrinzito e a
chiazze che ti macchia le mutande e la braghetta?"
http://groups.google.it/group/it.politica.internazionale/msg/1f324d4f5a1c4d94?dmode=source&hl=it
Tonibaruch: prof. SergioLuzzatto "un antisemita sbavante"
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 Va a curarti, lebbroso di Mosca e codardo dei giardinetti...
disse il codardo e guardone dei giardinetti del pincio
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 Am.
se non confermi a tutti in ogni thread in cui intervieni quanto sei
co*lione proprio non hai pace nel microcervello che hai eh amalric?
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 Cioe' io me ne dovrei stare zitto e buono
almeno ti risparmi tutte queste figure di merda che puntualmente fai.

 Rispondi se hai il coraggio,
ti ho sia risposto sia fatto fare la tua ennesima figura di merda.
Vuoi fare la prossima guardone attempato di it.sesso.annunci ?

   subumano del terzo livello...
 "subumano", bel linguaggio da nazistello amalric.
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 No roba da 
roba da Pat Buchanan di cui postavi gli articoli filonazisti eh amalric?
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 missionarie, fa qualcosa di utile.
tipo te che fai il guardone su it.sesso.annunci? la chiami opera
utile? bwhahahahahahahahahahah

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ROTFL! il vigliacco inglese ha paura perfino dei suoi stessi messaggi.
Ma li scrivi con la scorta come il principino Harry? <g>