Just by watching Associated Press wires roll by sites like Breitbart.com or other mass-headline sites it is obvious that Russia is the grand conspirator behind almost every single strategic crisis point in the world – every single one of them. The only country they have appear to have no hand in the fight is Pakistan, but then where intelligence agencies go anti-US and anti-government, especially by a circuitous and cunningly oblique route, one would not be wrong to wonder what influence Russia may be exerting in the region. There is nothing extraordinary in Kim’s observation. And look – now Russia seems to be poised to join OPEC.
How, for example, can anyone possibly believe the West can address Iranian nuclear technology without addressing Russia? To continue to follow that policy is essentially just an admission of failure and impotence. And both the Russians and Iranians (to say nothing of the Israelis) know it.
Readers of Pajamas and other sites have got to stop being distracted by the apparent internal collapse of the pillars of society within Russia which we, outside of Russia, take as measures of strength and health. Russia is not Europe; Russia is Asia. Strength and health are measured differently there. Russia is not weak. And Russia is not a democracy of any kind. And Russia is behind all these crises. So why should the Republican party – particularly when the Russians themselves are no longer overt devotees of the “brotherhood of man” – not make containment of Russia their policy? Russia is the arch-foe, because that’s what the Russian government is doing. Period.
