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HK

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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:10:12 -0400, hk wrote:

The Russians know that when it comes to dealing with a country that can
fight back, we're paper tigers. But a unified Europe could put the
kibash on the Russkies.

Don't think so. Putin is flexing his muscles, and it plays well in
Russia. With the European heating season coming on, I would suggest the
EU is the paper tiger.

The point is this: despite protestations from neocons and their camp
followers, the United States doesn't have the wherewithal to challenge
any large nuclear power, and we haven't had it for many decades. We have
a big military, but it can only be used to take on or threaten little
crap countries, and sometimes not those (e.g., Vietnam).

Thanks to Bush, we don't have any diplomatic clout left, either, nor can
we claim we're on the high moral road.

Therefore, there isn't much we can do to "persuade" the Russkis to leave
Georgia and not to invade any of its other former satellites.

The Europeans are not going to take the Russkies on militarily, either,
but, unlike us, they are not in the diplomatic and moral cellar, and
they can do a lot more to force reasonable behavior than we can.

The Russians don't give a damn what we think about what they are doing.
They know we are not in a position to do dick about it.

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