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		<title>The Road to Afghanistan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The expedient defeat of NATO-sponsored Georgian army last August by the Russians left many hardliners in Washington and Brussels itching to respond. NATO&#8217;s decision to break formal contacts with Russia was a testament to NATO&#8217;s own political weakness. To add to the Alliance&#8217;s humiliation, the economic crisis forced the West to seek improved relations with [...]
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		<title>Paying Ukraine&#8217;s Gas Bill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports that Ukraine&#8217;s president is using the gas war with Russia as a way to endear himself to the West and to improve EU&#8217;s disposition toward his country. What dark twisted alleys of logic led Bloomberg analysts to this extraordinary conclusion we will probably never know. Luckily. &#8220;Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko may be calculating [...]
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