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JustTheFacts


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There is no point in wasting time on analyzing the two top leaders' appeal to the nation that the Russian president came out with a few days ago, especially the part dealing with foreign policy and Russia's place in the world. That role under the flourishing tandem is perfectly clear, and it has nothing to do with the good of the country.

Nor is it worth paying any attention to Medvedev's "serious" question to Putin about who will be elected Russian president in 2012, given that nothing will change, whoever is elected.

It is also time to stop speculating about what Washington offered Moscow in return for its consent or silence during the UN Security Council vote on sanctions against Tehran.

Finally, it's time to lay to rest talk of how the Kremlin's approach to Iran is the litmus test of its entire foreign policy, an argument favored in particular by those experts and politicians who tend to attribute Moscow's decisions to its perception of having been humiliated by the West.

All of this is pointless because it looks as though the Kremlin really does want a war between the West and Iran. I can offer no other explanation for Moscow's behavior, especially taking into account the fact that statements that Russia is emerging from economic crisis have no grounding in reality.

On the other hand, a sharp rise in oil and gas prices as a result of such a war would enable Russia to emerge with full coffers from a crisis that has become a headache for the duo who personify "sovereign democracy" in Russia.

I would go so far as to say that such a political gambit would inevitably result in a Pyrrhic victory for Moscow, and not only because the hundreds of billions of dollars that would flow into the federal budget, the Stabilization Fund, the Reserve Fund, and the Fund for the "Greening of Russia" would certainly not be channeled into diversifying the economy. The past nine years have demonstrated graphically how the Kremlin tries to avoid such idiocies, restricting itself to words that are starkly at odds with its deeds.

http://www.rferl.org/content/The_Kremlin_Wants_A_War_in_Iran/1824223.html

Dmitry Sidorov is a Moscow-based commentator. The views expressed in this commentary, which originally appeared in Russian on the website "Yezhednevny zhurnal," are the author's own, and do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL

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Thanks for posting this JTF.

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Why in the hell did Obama agree to scrape that shield.



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Hillarysmygirl16 wrote:

Why in the hell did Obama agree to scrape that shield.


I don't know.  I don't get it.  I get what's in it for Russia, but what was in it for obama? 

 



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1. He is a complete nitwit fool.

or

2. He is siding with them and plans to turn this country over to them.

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Hillarysmygirl16 wrote:

 

Why in the hell did Obama agree to scrape that shield.

 


It is rumored that one of the reasons that he scraped the shield was for the benefit of General Electric.

 



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I heard Chris Wallace and the other FoxNews pundits discussing the missile shield. They don't have a problem with the plan in and of itself because Gates offered a good explanation as to why they've decided to go in that direction. They didn't mention Hillary on Fox, but you can read her take on the missile shield here:

http://departmentofhomegirlsecurity.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/secretary-hillary-clinton-on-missile-defense/


The problem, according to the Fox pundits, is the timing and method of 0's announcement. Personally, I also think he should have sent Hillary to Europe to discuss the missile shield with our allies before he made these plans public. And yeah, the General Electric deal with Russia is suspect.

Does the Kremlin want a war in Iran? Who knows? They don't want to help us or help Israel, that's for sure. Whether or not they want a war is another question. If there is a war, it will be taking place on Russia's own borders, so I don't see why they would want something like that going on so close to home. Even if Russia is making $$$ selling its oil, how are they going to get it out of the country with World War Three going on all around them? And it will be WW3, if it happens, which I hope and pray it does not.

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