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21 comments on Russian gas and European energy security

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mbkennel on May 1, 2007 - 3:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Unfortunatley, Putin is a Russian Nationalist, and has bizarrely chosen to put Russia's national interests before those of the West. Basically, this makes him an outlaw seen from our perspective.

When the USA puts its national interests before those of Europe and Russia, it too is seen as an outlaw and criticized vituperatively.

Good policy involves generally attempting to find areas where your and other people's national interests can coincide most amicably.

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musashi on May 1, 2007 - 3:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Obviously it depends what team you play for

If you play for the US I would be seriously concerned about them putting their national interest first. As long as they put third party interests first and allow uncontrolled third world immigration they will continue in decline and at some point will not be able to float IOU's to pay for the military.

The absolute best thing that could happen for the US is if they found their own version of Putin, a strong nationalist leader with the power to make things happen. Problem is that will not happen any time soon.

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