26/7/7 -- The decision in July 2007 by the Russian government to withdraw from the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty negotiated in the dying days of the SU comes as no surprise. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev gave the US the shop, being more concerned about domestic reform and Western aid, convinced that Reagan's US was really a peace-loving sort.
Russia and ex-Soviet Union (English)
CFE Treaty, Trans-Dniester, Polish missiles: Tit for tat
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Litvinenko: Poisonous espionage
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
26/7/7 -- Four Russian diplomats were expelled from Britain last week as a pressure tactic to try to force Russia to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, the key suspect in the death of a former KGB officer and proud new UK citizen, Alexander Litvinenko. The expulsion came shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was pulling out of the CFE treaty and as Polish President Lech Kaczynski was visiting Washington to finalise the US missile bases in Europe. What a coincidence.
Bush vs Putin: Captain Marvel meets his nemesis
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
A romp on the seashore gives Eric Walberg a chance to reflect on the Bush-Putin legacies
5/7/7 -- Wouldn't the Bush-Putin saga make a wonderful comic strip? The two most powerful men in the world first meet in June 2001, a few months before the Attack of the Evil Jihadis. "I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul," Captain Bush praised his new friend Darth Putin. Perhaps the zenith of this farcical replay of the wartime Roosevelt-Stalin alliance was Bush presiding over the Red Square military parade in Moscow the following May as Darth's guest of "special importance", celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany, where the leaders signed a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty and agreed to a broad cooperative agenda. The Alliance against the Evil Empires -- old and new -- was in good hands.
Soviet redux: Cold War lite
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
28/6/7 -- It's official. As the US proceeds with its new world order in the Middle East, the world at large and even space, Russia, resurgent with its oil revenues and booming economy is again taking on the G8 coterie on all fronts. No apologies and no looking back.
Belarus: bucking the tide
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Europes lone populist muddies the Eurowaters, says Eric Walberg
14/6/7 -- The post-Soviet New World Order that the West is trying to impose not only in Iraq, but around the world, is its version of democracy, meaning elections, preferably with short terms making for weak presidents, the whole process tightly controlled and monitored by a "free" media (read: privately controlled) and Western NGOs. It's a very expensive racket -- the winner is generally the best-funded and most widely advertised in the "free" media.
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