Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
Posted on September 16, 2008 - by Venik
Poll: Is Sarah Palin ready to be the President?
In 1982, Palin enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College. After one semester she transfered to North Idaho College in 1983 and then to the University of Idaho the same year. Palin attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for one term and then returned to the University of Idaho, from where she finally graduated in 1987 with a [...]
Posted on September 15, 2008 - by Venik
Photos: Events in Georgia
Here’s a small collection of photos from a variety of sources detailing the recent events in Georgia. Some interesting photos of the Russian Su-25 damaged by a Georgian man-portable SAM. Also photos of the Russian “Mirage” corvette that sank a Georgian missile boat with one of its P-120 Malakhit anti-ship missile – the first ever [...]
Posted on September 13, 2008 - by Venik
International Monitors in Georgia
According to AP, some Western (American) diplomats are accusing Russia of stalling negotiations over sending international observers to Georgia. “For three weeks now, we have been fighting on how to deploy these extra 80 monitors without delay,” the Western official said. “Everyone but Russia has said they should be able to get into all of [...]
Posted on September 13, 2008 - by Venik
Russian Separatists and Ivan the Terrible
Just ran into a funny article in The New York Times. Obviously, the article’s author did not try at all to be funny, which made it even funnier. In her Russia’s Recognition of Georgian Areas Raises Hopes of Its Own Separatists, Ellen Barry suggests, as you can see from the article’s title, that by recognizing [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 - by Venik
Good Things about Palin
If back in 2000 you told me that getting Junior into the White House would help Russia’s economic and political recovery, I would have asked you to stop smoking crack. Bush and Cheney were aggressively anti-Russian in their election campaign. They criticized Clinton for being soft on Russia in view of Moscow’s military campaign in [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 - by Venik
CNN to Leave Russia?
I few days ago I heard an interesting rumor from a journalist friend in Moscow. It seems that Putin is pissed off at CNN for refusing to air his 30-minute exclusive interview in its entirely, instead choosing to concentrate on a few disconnected remarks. Now it seems I am not the only one who heard [...]
Posted on September 6, 2008 - by Venik
Pentagon-Hired Contractor Trained Georgian Army
In the late 1800s, one American poet wrote: “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.” Since the first day of the war in the Caucasus, people familiar with history started noticing peculiar similarities between Georgia’s attack [...]
Posted on August 23, 2008 - by Venik
Old Dogs, Old Tricks.
Just finished reading “How to Deter Russia”, by William Courtney and Kenneth Yalowitz (The Washington Post, August 23, 2008, p. A15). Courtney is the former US Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia. Yalowitz is the former US Ambassador to Belarus and Georgia. It is absolutely astonishing how two diplomats with so much relevant experience can misinterpret [...]
Posted on August 22, 2008 - by Venik
US Confirms It Knew of Georgia’s Plan to Attack South Ossetia
In its August 22 issue, the Russian business daily Kommersant published the interview with the new US Ambassador to Russia John Beyrly. As should have been expected of an experienced diplomat, Ambassador Beyrly said a lot about nothing. Although he did bring up a couple of points worth mentioning. John Beyrly is a fluent Russian [...]
Posted on August 17, 2008 - by Venik
Holbrooke Paid by Saakashvili?
Richard Holbrooke, the former US Ambassador to the UN and currently the vice chairman of Perseus LLC, is now in Tbilisi accusing the cowardly Russian soldiers of stealing pants off the dead bodies of Georgia’s courageous warriors. Holbrooke is claiming that Russia is about to invade Ukraine and is getting ready to take over the [...]
Posted on August 15, 2008 - by Venik
Georgia’s Attack on South Ossetia: Washington’s Role
Elusive NATO Membership At the NATO Summit in Bucharest in April 2008 Georgia was denied Membership Action Plan. Aside from Russia’s vehement opposition, the key issues outlined in the NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan, accepted by Georgia in October 2004, remain unresolved. These issues are: Georgia’s antiquated military equipment, insufficient training and deployability of its [...]
Posted on July 27, 2008 - by Venik
Karl Marx and the White House
The redneck right in the US and their fearless leader John McCain are praising Dubya for lowering oil prices. Just look at the facts, they say, oil price dropped ten bucks and the gas price is a whole penny lower. We’ve been paying a lot of attention to the prices of crude and gasoline, but [...]
Posted on July 26, 2008 - by Venik
The Story of Cuba and Russian Bombers
The news of Russia’s plan to station its nuclear bombers in Cuba has aroused much interest in the US and even drew an official response from a high-ranking USAF general. The only problem with this story was that Russia never had any plans for a bomber base in Cuba. Izvestia – the Russian daily that [...]
Posted on July 17, 2008 - by Venik
Who’s Guarding the Nukes?
“Wrong on Russia”, by Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian Studies at New York University (International Herald Tribune, July 1, 2008), is almost a balanced look at the current problems with Russo-American relations. Ten years of systematically ignoring Russia’s interests following the Soviet collapse have ruined America’s relations with the only country that can destroy it [...]
