In a message dated 02/09/2001 12:34:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< nd now Mr Putin's former mentor, the former Kremlin property manager,
Pavel Borodin, has been told nothing will be done to save him from
answering charges of multi-million pound theft in Swiss courts. >>
The argument here is that because Putin is not lifting a finger to help
Borodin, therfore "his problems have ntohign to dow with geopolitics."
But Borodin was not arrested by Putin he was arrested by Washington which
lured him to the arrest. The Russian government offered to have him meet
voluntarily with the Swiss - the Swiss, on US - not Putin's - instructions
refused. If Putin chooses not to help for local reasons (as the article
suggests) so what? And irrelevant of the state of relations between Borodin
and Putin I repeat, the failure to stand up to this flagrant violation of
Russian sovereignty is quite amazing. Mr. Lukashenko apparently cut short a
recent trip to Moscow by way of protest.
We live in an imperfect world. The U.S. wishes Russia reduced to colonial
status. It has made much headway. One of the marks of being a colony is
that you are subjected to public ridicule and your laws - including imperfect
ones - are mocked at will by the Imperial power. That is what is happening
here.
What are we to do? Only object when the U.S. has the courtesy to attack
perfect people?
Jared
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