On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 06:04:56PM -0300, juan wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:02:20 +1000 > Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Perhaps we can agree on the following: > > > > 1. I have posted a lot of pro-Russia articles. > > > > 2. Before today I had not clarified in simple terms my belief that > > Russia is the only reason BRICS could be created, and the only reason > > other nations have the guts to stand together against the attacks from > > the USA. > > We can argue/agree that having an alliance against the US is a > good thing, in the short term at least. However... > > > > > Putin rescuing Russia from destruction as a nation, is a good thing? > > ...however, to go from the general idea of russia and china > counterbalancing the anglo-american nazis to saying that putin > is a great guy is...totally unwarrented. > > As a matter of fact, I can argue that putin is a lot more > friendly to his alleged 'western' enemies that he pretends to > be.
And I'd agree with you. Putin sure wanted and tried hard over many years to create an alliance with the west, and genuine state-level economically mutually beneficial "partnership", with perks of "fighting the same 'bad' guys together". Over and over he kept/ keeps getting snubbed - so yes, the lack of any rapproachment between Russia and USA is certainly not for want of Russia trying... Perhaps this failure of USA to get in bed with Russia is a better long term outcome; I suspect so.
