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To: Stormweaver who wrote (4335)	4/18/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

James, It is disturbing how people seem to think that nations that are economically weak are less likely to become militarily dangerous. This whole century has proven quite the opposite. The case with Russia is very disturbing because they are still very powerful as a nation, but an economic basket case. That is a very dangerous situation. -John

To: Stormweaver who wrote (4335)	4/18/1999 12:24:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Schroeder calls for Kosovo fuel crackdown, paper 05:18 a.m. Apr 18, 1999 Eastern WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder wants NATO to do a better job of cutting the flow of fuel and capital to Yugoslavia, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. In an interview with the newspaper, Schroeder said unnamed NATO members had failed to stop oil and gas deliveries to Yugoslavia through its territory. He appeared to be referring to Hungary, which joined NATO on March 12. ''There are still supplies of fuel reaching (Serbian President Slobodan) Milosevic by sea and land, and they are not being stopped by NATO members. This is unacceptable,'' said Schroeder. Hungary had balked at allowing Russia to send Yugoslavia an aid convoy, including diesel fuel, through its territory but said on April 12 that it would let the convoy proceed. ''We have to tighten our grip a little,'' said Schroeder. ''It is not acceptable that there is business with Milosevic while our soldiers are risking their lives.'' Schroeder, who was elected in February, told the newspaper that Germany may have a special obligation to end the killing and expulsions of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Since Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party tried to cleanse Europe of non-Germans during World War II, he said, ''we are now under a moral obligation to help stop new atrocities (from) being committed there.'' Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.

To: Stormweaver who wrote (4335)	4/18/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<For the first time opposition parties are united against the U.S. and NATO nations taking action in the Balkans. This can be used as a political "rallying point" to win public support for an opposition party that would be anti-West. Hence the restarting of the cold war ... which was on it's way to being over through economic integration ... but we interrupted it with out new-world interventism in the Blakans>> Its going to be interesting to see what happens after Yeltsin leaves. I would disagree with your analysis of Russia's economic "integration" however. I would call it IMF induced "disintegration." But thats another subject. I brought this subject up on the WWIII thread a while ago, and I believe it was Neocon that suggested a scenario I had not thought of that is also a possibility aside from neo-Stalinism or nuclear civil war in the former USSR, namely, the wholesale collapse of Russia as a state. Russia has already nearly lost everything that Catherine gained. It may very well be that Peter's Russia finally collapses under the weight of 1000 years of Russian history and is reduced once again to Muscova. Who knows what will happen when the chit hits the fan?