John wrote:
<< The other problem is that Russia really isn't part of the Western
intellectual tradition just yet. Democracy is a rather new-fangled thing and not
totally trusted. As far as treatment of indigenous ethnic minorities (i.e. Chechens)
they are about where we were 100 years ago. >>
So there is a unofficial appartied, minorities are dienfranchised, and regularly
hunted down and lynched by mobs?
<< Most of their societal institutions from the federal government, to the local
level, to the markets, to the Courts are corrupt, ineffective, and are abused for the
self-enrichment of the powerful. >>
Sounds familiar. Do they have courts that throw elections?
<< The Russians do not have the same vision for the world that we do,
regularly co-operating with North Korea, Iraq, and Serbia. >>
Ah, but now that we have a Republican back in the White House we can resume the
installation of puppet regimes in countries we desire to control. With regimes like
the ones we had running El Salvidor, Iran, Phillipeans, and Argentina etc. etc., would
we really comand the moral high ground?
Doug
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