On 8/23/12 11:10 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > The best analysis I've read so far (consisting entirely of common > sense, of course):
Coming from someone who blogs as Da Russophile, what else would one expect? In fact, he once defended a point of view that is pretty much consistent with Putin's ambitions. http://darussophile.com/2010/01/27/regathering-russian-lands/ "I have long noted Russia’s resurgence back into the ranks of the leading Great Powers; I predicted that the global economic crisis will not have a long-term retarding impact on the Russian economy; and within the past year I have bought into Stratfor‘s idea that the defining narrative now in play in Eurasia is Russia’s intention to reconstruct its empire / sphere of influence / call-it-what-you-will in the post-Soviet space." And here's a particularly bizarre defense of the Soviet-Nazi non-aggression treaty, combining as it were the worst features of IR realpolitik and Stalinoid muddle: http://darussophile.com/2009/08/24/nazi-soviet-pact-second-munich/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
