Putinomics

Russia’s military invasion of Georgia, Stalin’s home state, has generated world condemnation and calls for economic sanctions. Economic sanctions are short sighted and won’t work. The minute any state questions or challenges Russia or its oil czar, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russia instinctively resorts to Cold War totalitarian bombastic rhetoric and tactics, which includes military confrontation.

Putin is well aware of the response his Putinomic actions will elicit and is prepared to pay the price. He has called America’s bluff.

The new cold war Russia has launched, unlike the first one, is not a fight for military supremacy, but rather for respect and security. Putin is transforming Russia into a new economic oil and gas superpower with vast bargaining power over America and the European community. Russia is the world’s eighth largest producer of crude oil and the largest of natural gas. Russia is also third only to China and Japan as a holder of Western government securities. Moscow is using its energy clout for geopolitical gain. Especially in the regions that were once under Soviet control but are now independent countries.

Russia and Putin are angry and fuming at America for what they perceive as deliberate bad-faith dealings. It dismantles the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, folds up and abolishes the Warsaw Pact. And what does America do instead of being supportive and welcoming? It surrounds Russia with NATO and a missile defense system it places in the former Soviet puppet states of Poland and the Czech Republic to allegedly defend against any missiles launched from Iran. Sound right? Is it any surprise Russia invaded Georgia? Georgia lost a war with Abkhaz separatists in the early 1990s. Since then the area has been a self-declared republic that sought independence and finally got it.

The Cold War border effectively moved from Germany to Poland, Czech Republic and Georgia. Not bad for America. It thought it had a first down in Poland and the new Cold War until the ugly Russian interception and touchdown in Georgia. Moscow will not under any circumstances accept that America is the sole world superpower. Russia’s actions are supported and backed by the Russian people.

Russia’s strategic security will not be sacrificed and it is being secured with its recycled petrodollars loaned to the West. Imposing economic sanctions on Russia will only result in more economic and geopolitical interceptions by Russia that will cost America dearly. America, faced with a global recession it helped bring about, cannot afford to marginalize Russia and its Putinomic clout. America and Russia must reach an accommodation.

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  1. Russia is a Superpower again as the United States, CNN (as stated here on CNN August 1, 2008) and other news media's have admitted http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dNr2GH08I, this is an NATO expansion war. US former president Ronald Reagan promise Russia there would be no NATO expansion into post Soviet Union countries back 1989 which has clearly been violated. NATO is the new cold war, they are expanding and we cannot trust NATO. NATO is evil and Russia is the ally here. People need to Google the truth about what NATO means and what relation is NATO, EU & Bilderberg together. I support Russia and I am against NATO, NATO is the enemy here. NATO wants to expand membership and spread every they can into more countries. NATO is about building a military block and when countries apply for NATO membership, they wave their rights to protect themselves or governored themselves but are under the rules of NATO. It is a communist movement on a private sector by NATO and this is wrong. Russia & China has been dead set against NATO and this is why. I want Russia to make its stance and stand against NATO, this evil lying agency that has no business taking countries rights away.

    Who start this conflick? Georgia, NATO & the US, read link by Pat Buchanan :http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan94.html and this video link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBRl-BvKJII

    And read what Ron Paul has said about NATO pushing into Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyJiWYmXGLY

    Here is a couple of Americans living in Georgia admitting Georgia & the US started the conflicts with Russia and that Georgia was indeed killing Russian people inside of Georgia. Something the US bilderberg media is not going to air on US television news channels.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4DdRmALFYg

    We have to understand that Russia is protecting itself from NATO.

    NATO is an organization whose purpose ended with the end of its Warsaw Pact adversary. When NATO struggled to define its future after the Cold War, it settled on attacking a sovereign state, Yugoslavia, which had neither invaded nor threatened any NATO member state.

    This current round of NATO expansion is a political reward to governments in Georgia and Ukraine that came to power as a result of US-supported revolutions, the so-called Orange Revolution and Rose Revolution. The governments that arose from these street protests were eager to please their US sponsor and the US, in turn, turned a blind eye to the numerous political and human rights abuses that took place under the new regimes. Thus the US policy of “exporting democracy” has only succeeding in exporting more misery to the countries it has targeted.

    NATO expansion only benefits the US military industrial complex, which stands to profit from expanded arms sales to new NATO members. The “modernization” of former Soviet militaries in Ukraine and Georgia will mean tens of millions in sales to US and European military contractors. The US taxpayer will be left holding the bill, as the US government will subsidize most of the transactions. Providing US military guarantees to Ukraine and Georgia can only further strain our military. This NATO expansion may well involve the US military in conflicts as unrelated to our national interest as the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia. The idea that American troops might be forced to fight and die to prevent a small section of Georgia from seceding is absurd and disturbing.

    By Congressman Ron Paul: http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/01/ron-paul-disband-nato/

    So I have provided these facts below to state Russia is indeed a Superpower.

    The Russian empire strikes back 16/08/2008
    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1011861.html

    Russia confident they are a Superpower again
    nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/europe/15russia.html?scp=1&sq=russia%20superpower%20anne%20barnard&st=cse

    THE OUTLOOK ON A TRIPLE-SUPERPOWER WORLD
    The Christian Science Monitor
    By Helena Cobban from the August 22, 2008 edition
    csmonitor.com/2008/0822/p09s03-coop.html

    Georgia: a return to superpower misbehaviour
    The First Post August 21, 2008
    thefirstpost.co.uk/45162,opinion,georgia-a-return-to-superpower-misbehaviour

    Merkel's Most Serious Foreign Policy Crisis: Superpower Flexes its Muscles: 08/18/2008
    spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,572726,00.html
    U.S. worries Russia returning to its past
    Bush administration struggles for right response to Russia's aggression
    Updated 9:39 a.m. PT, Sun., Aug. 17, 2008
    msnbc.msn.com/id/26253358

    CNN NEWSROOM
    Russia Attacks Neighbor; Return of a Superpower; Interview With Sergei Ivanov, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister
    Aired August 11, 2008 – 11:00 ET
    transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/11/cnr.03.html

    A Superpower Is Reborn
    The New York Times
    By RONALD STEEL Published: August 24, 2008
    nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24steel.html

    Superpower swoop : New Statesman
    Misha Glenny
    Published 14 August 2008
    newstatesman.com/europe/2008/08/georgia-russia-ukraine-cheney

    US worries Russia returning to authoritarian past
    By the Associated Press
    wokv.com/common/ap/2008/08/17/D92K3M7O0.html

    Russians are confident their nation is back as a Superpower
    http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/08/15/russians_are_confident_their_nation_is_back/
    Superpower Russia
    Published: 8/12/2008
    turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=246638

    John Roughan: So much for sole superpower
    5:00AM Saturday August 16, 2008 New Zealand Herald
    nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10527278&pnum=2

    Danger of Cold War
    August 18, 2008: The FINANCIAL
    finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18207&Itemid=14

    Washington Acknowledges Russia as Superpower
    May 27, 2007
    kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929

    Putin's Paranoid Bear Sharpens Its Claws
    The Scotsman: August 18, 2008
    gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977424041

    The Red Army marches again: Dailymail
    By PETER HITCHENS
    Last updated at 22:48 10 May 2008
    dailymail.co.uk/news/article-565421/The-Red-Army-marches–I-fear-futures-says-Peter-Hitchens.html

    Washington Acknowledges Russia as Superpower
    Kommersant: May 26, 2007
    kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929

    Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower
    books.google.com/books?id=eC6HdSYZhRgC&dq=Russia+in+the+21st+Century:+The+Prodigal+Superpower&pg=PP1&ots=AD3lnsFUdL&sig=XZZre_9YuBdKtxp7k0CmeylD9dQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR9,M1

    amazon.com/Russia-21st-Century-Prodigal-Superpower/dp/0521545293/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219706181&sr=1-3
    Global Warming, the Arctic Thaw and the New Cold War
    Why Russia's Incursion Into Georgia Bodes Ill for the Climate
    August 18, 2008
    thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/shapley/arctic-thaw-47081802

    U.S. No More The Only Super Power
    Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter: American Chronicle
    americanchronicle.com/articles/71513

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