Jared, you simply are not addressing the issues I raised, which go right to the
heart not only of your understanding of what is happening in Russia (pretty scanty,
I have to say) but to your understanding of the modalities of modern imperialism and
its centre-periphery articulations.
Mark
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> Subject: [CrashList] Borodin's arrest has ONLY to do with geopolitics
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> In a message dated 02/09/2001 12:34:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> << 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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