Sunday, February 11, 2007

RUSSIA'S WRONG DIRECTION? : a CFR report

Available at http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Russia_TaskForce.pdf,
and for all you Russians out there it is available in Russian too!

The CFR Russia Task Force(!) published its view on what Russia should do. Task Force members include John Edwards, Dov Zakheim, and Stephen Sestanovich who is George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the CFR. (Kennan was sponsored by Schiff during the first two decades of last century to provoke a revolution in Russia, which eventually occured and led to the capture of the Russian market and natural mineral wealth by Wall Street.)

The conclusion of the report reads,
We have prepared this report to answer the difficult question of what policy should the United States pursue toward Russia. Because we believe that Russia ‘‘matters,’’ we have paid close attention to those problems that cannot be effectively addressed unless Moscow and Washington cooperate. Several of these are of critical importance—most notably, the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program and the risk that inadequately secured nuclear materials in Russia could fall into the wrong hands. The United States has every reason to preserve and expand such cooperation. At the same time we have sought to identify those issues on which cooperation is becoming more difficult. There are many of these as well, and they shape our judgment that relations are headed in the wrong direction. In particular, Russia’s relations with other post-Soviet states have become a source of significantly heightened U.S.-Russian friction. While avoiding unnecessary rivalry, American policy should counter Russian pressures that undermine the stability and independence of its neighbors and help ensure the success of those states that want to make the leap into the European mainstream. In the next several years the most important negative factor in U.S.- Russian relations is likely to be Russia’s emergent authoritarian political system. This trend will make it harder for the two sides to find common ground and harder to cooperate even when they do. It makes the future direction of Russian politics much less predictable. If Russia remains on an authoritarian course, U.S.-Russian relations will almost certainly continue to fall short of their potential.

Even today Russia’s economic revival, political stability, and international self-confidence ought to have led to expanded cooperation on many fronts. Yet what has emerged instead is a relationship with a very narrow base. The large common interests that might animate a real partnership, including energy, counterterrorism, and nonproliferation, are frequently subordinated to other concerns of Russian policy—to internal struggles over property and power, to sensitivity about Russia’s influence on its periphery, to anxieties about its looming political transition. Drawing Russia into the Western political mainstream remains a critical interest of American foreign policy. Success would help the United States realize the promise of an undivided Europe, promote China’s peaceful entry into the circle of great powers, and address a host of other major international problems. Only Russia can decide on a change of course, but other countries can help to frame its choice, making clear how much is to be gained—and how much has to be done. Doing so will be a long-term effort, but it should begin now, and the way to start is by talking about it. Russia’s leaders—and its people—deserve to know what the world’s real democracies think
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What is a "real" democracy to which the authors refer?

Please point one out to me? If they believe the USA, or Great Britain, is a democracy I would strongly disagree. Our leaders are selected for us at informal interviews called Bilderberg, and even the CFR itself, by warmongers who have the power to create money for whatever sick megalomaniac schemes they desire.

The above report is simply another attempt to convince Russia to give its oil and gas away. As stated at the recent World Forum Russia is now a creditor, writing off its debts, and is set to become a bigger producer of fossil energy than Saudi Arabia (is this why global warming is such a topic at the moment?). This gives Russia alot of power, and it is not clear that the NWO controls it. It is therefore a possible threat to the NWO.

Although Putin's speech at Munich yesterday was the most confrontational since Beslan when I think Putin accused London and Washington it was not as powerful and as revealing as it could have been. We need something like that letter from Ahmedinejad to the American people, but containing more provable revelations about the people who control the USA and Great Britain and their intentions. For the leaders of the USA and Great Britain will not reveal their blood-soaked crimes to their people. I'm trying. Some others are trying. But we don't have the media access. Until such revelations are made there will always be a tiny doubt...

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