Comments on: Europe In The Light of Resurgent Russia

By: bidhan

bidhan — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:30:59 +0000

If you have power then you can try to secure the world. Except why not people death.
Without blood we can catch happy it real true of the world.
The fighter always call Great. You both American and Russian forget why are fighting
Just try to fight with any reason then you can stay always on the top.

By: bidhan

bidhan — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:16:03 +0000

As a Indian we always respect Russian People Because whenever we are scuffed any major problem
Russian always stand with us. So I say Russia is good except they do right or wrong it not a matter.

By: James Bond

James Bond — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:30:30 +0000

Americans were more civilised when there was a Soviet Union. Now it’s nothing more than a bunch international bullying gangsters running around with big guns. Russia is right in reminding those cowboys that they ( Russia) are still a very significant nuclear armed state.
Can america stop poking their nose in other people’s business and start paying their international debts for a change ??

By: saab

saab — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:14:50 +0000

every country have its sovergn right to defend itself.
what ever russia does is in its interest , it is in the interest of all the citizens of the russian federation.
the usa on the other hand is in false perception of the growing threat from russia, the real threat to the united states is from peoples republic of china .
russia cannot be like a numb state and have its former allies influenced by its former rival attacking them.

By: Internationalist

Internationalist — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:57:30 +0000

Well, it’s a bit unfair, Jacques, to criticize AMERICANS for colonization of North America because at the time they were predominantly British subjects. It’s equally unfair to chastise them for their tiffs with democracy because at the time, it was at best an experimental form of governance. Human tolerance, however, has never been a major issue in the American culture — that is, there were those who gladly committed acts of racism, there were those who sort of accepted it as norm at the time (say, for example, the 1960s). By the way, Drew, Britain is a [West] European nation and has nothing to do with America except to reminisce in its long-gone empire; this alliance gives Britain that capacity. Drew, maybe it’s just me, but your last sentence simply doesn’t make any sense…

By: Jacques

Jacques — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:53:39 +0000

@ Drew
Europe doesn’t need Americans to tell who to make friends with. Not from a nation that used ethnic cleansing to claim North America from its native population and then imported slaves from Africa to work the land (democracy and human tolerance?). Go and pick a history book kid, your rhetoric on Cold War reeks of ignorance, even by American standards.

By: G.Vinod

G.Vinod — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:52:35 +0000

The Americans are dragging Europe towards another cold war against Russia. The classic example was their full support for Georgian agression against the Russians. It would be good for Europe if their Military Alliance
(NATO) take some bold decisions instead of dancing to the tunes of America.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:38:59 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me how naive European people can be… Trillions of US, British & other dollars and millons of American lives lost fighting the cold war to free people from Russians and they quickly forget our history of occupation by their friends in Russia..sad.

By: mr fiji islands

mr fiji islands — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:47:00 +0000

After all, without Russia’s massive sacrifice in World War II, Europe - and possibly the entire world - would be greeting each other today with fascist salutes.
The God-blessed land of baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet is the only nation, it believes, that has the moral authority to convene military operations, or “preempt” suspected attacks, anywhere in the world. Apparently, it even denies other countries the right to act in self-defense, as was clearly the case with Russia in South Ossetia. As for Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, well, do as we say, not as we do. The U.S. National Security Strategy states: “The United States must defend liberty and justice… for all people everywhere.” But who will guard us from the guardians?So now the U.S. military is left with the vacuous-sounding “War on Terror,” as it shoots at shadows across the Middle East, while slashing civil liberties and social spending back home.

By: Capt Sasha

Capt Sasha — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:06:05 +0000

@ Frank - “Did you watch the other videos where Russian tanks and bombs destroyed everything in their path?”

A military combat requires use of force, with certain kinds of weaponry and tactics. Tanks and bombs are a part of it, as are fighter and bomber runs. The non-NATO world doesn’t fight wars with sticks and stones, even though a lot of Americans seem to be of such an impression.

@ Frank - “Also an operation such as this had to have been planned by Russia months in advance.”

Not necessarily. The paramilitary units of MVD, deployed as peacekeepers in the Caucasus zone, are quite capable of handling a small scale military conflict. Georgia is no military superpower and the Russian Interior Ministry is not made up of uniformed dolls.

@ Frank - “Let me tell you with Putin you guys are going back to the old Soviet era and he is nothing less than a would be dictator.”

I don’t think your words will make much of an impact to those Russians, who have personally experienced both the Putin years and the years before it. With a popularity rating of 74% upwards, Putin is no more a dictator than the most democratic and popular American president has ever been. Putin wouldn’t take Russia to the Soviet era any sooner than Bush takes United States to the American Civil War era. The American frustration at the Putin administration is quite understandable, considering that Putin has prevented Russia from degrading into a Latin America situation.