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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (107428)	9/4/2014 7:45:32 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219408

Europe must put up with awkward questions (.... continuation translated with Google) It is therefore not excluded that future historians need to figure it out, as parts of Europe could fall into bondage again. And they will have many questions for our current European elites: Why only Europe has occupied the middle of one of its worst crises in foreign policy chief post with an inexperienced politician, the plus was known as crap when it comes to Russian aggression? Why was NATO not ready to move substantial deterrent Russia military contingents laid in the eastern frontline states (as in the Cold War in the Federal Republic), so that Putin did not even get the idea to play with fire there? Why the West is the aggressor not decisively and quickly fell into the arm to weaken Putin's position earlier and earlier, the desire to take the Russian population for adventure? Why was the down mismanaged Ukrainian military not helped quickly and effectively with weapons and military advisers, so it could the Russian invaders oppose more resistance and raise costs for Russia in the height? Why Europe has not been years ago recognized that it must reduce its dangerous dependence on Russian energy supplies? Why has it been so easy to Moscow to build propaganda networks and infiltrate the public life of European countries? Why do Europeans have shut down in the same time their military spending drastically in Moscow hung an ambitious and expensive modernization program for its own military? Europe was a dangerous naivete of the day For each of these questions, there are explanations that have to do with European domestic policy, with economic crisis and much more. Taken together, they are evidence of a dangerous naivete Europe and the inability to think in geopolitical terms. We have seen in terms of Russia in recent years also a dangerous stove thinking. There was a pageant that Russia just need more time to be a member of the Western community of values. They're not there yet, but on the right track. All indications of a strategically aligned anti-Western policy of Russia have been hidden or dismissed as unfortunate individual cases. Hardly anyone wanted to see the thread that resulted from Putin's angry anti-Western speech at the Munich Security Conference 2007 Georgia war of 2008 until the suppression of the Russian protest movement after 2011 and Russia's ruthless support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, with the Moscow back foot tried to grasp the Middle East - and thus followed in the footsteps of the Soviets. There were very few experts on Russia, which warned loudly warning that Moscow for years advocated a new, coherent anti-Western world view and its own people so ideologically prepared for a new conflict with the West. We believed what we want to believe And why do we pay our intelligence agencies, if the have apparently not noticed (or did not consider it important) that Putin kept ready plans for invasion of the Crimea in the drawers and had started years ago to establish in Ukraine separatist groups and finance that could serve as ground troops for the Russian Camouflage invasion? Instead, Europe has believed what wanted to believe it. Because it was convenient. And because it corresponded to their own world view. Unfortunately, it was not compatible with Putin. Therefore, what we are currently experiencing in the Ukraine, perhaps only a prelude to a larger conflict. And then asks a question more urgent than any other: Are our European elites adequately prepared for re-Rendezvous of the continent with the story?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (107428)	9/4/2014 2:49:31 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219408

A danger we face by allowing commercial interests to effectively control our government is that, like the robber barons of wars past, they aren't necessarily opposed to wars, and actually see them as an adjunct to their bottom lines. Wealthy folks don't get their hands, or their kids hands messed up, for the most part, in wars.. ..that is the job of the struggling class, whose kids by and large see the military as attainable employment, especially as the pigs are eliminating more and more jobs to enhance their bottom lines The German experience merely follows the political demands of their elites.. ..let's don't nip this Ukraine thing in the bud if it costs us any money ..better to figure how to profit from it