Over at Little Green Footballs, within 48 hrs, it looks like La Russophobe is already wearing out her welcome. On the one hand, you can’t believe that anybody could produce that much garbage as just a hobby. On the other hand, you can’t believe a well-funded PR operation would stoop to denouncing any commenter who disagrees as an “ape” or “Kremlin stooge” at even the most obscure forum.
I haven’t noticed any difference between the Beeb’s coverage of Russia than other media outlets.
Here is the link to the Anne Applebaum story from 2005, about Khodorkovsky’s reception in D.C.:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301511.html
For his part, Berezovsky said he was willing to spend $1 billion of his own fortune to bring down Putin. Klebnikov wrote in Godfather of the Kremlin that Berezovsky had ordered contract killings, and he winds up dead a short time later. And then Litvinenko, a Berezovsky employee in London, dies a horrible, exotic death from polonium poisoning. But keep telling yourselves that only FSB could get ahold of a few grams of that stuff and that the British Secret Service has no motive to defend Berezovsky or see him never get extradited back to Russia.
Again, none of you ever answered my questions: are the Secretaries of Treasury and Deputy Treasury Secretary also Russian tools, since they were in Moscow just a few weeks ago assuring the Russian Central Bank that their dollar-denominated holdings were safe from the subprime crisis and that they should invest more of their sovereign wealth funds in the U.S.?(Kimmitt was in Moscow last year, as reported by RosBusinessConsulting, and Paulson was there just two months ago, unless you think they were their to sip tea) Am I on crazy pills for asking why the U.S. is asking Russia for more capital and help with Iran at the same time it is provoking Moscow in Georgia?
Is the Pentagon under Kremlin influence because they charter Russian Antonovs (Google An-124 on images and see a nice VolgaDnieper model loading up at a California Air Force Base) for Afghanistan and Iraq? There aren’t enough C-17s in the fleet as it is, that’s why they use them at $40-$70k an hour. And the source for the Fannie-Freddie story was Reuters.
Better to stick your heads in the sand and pretend that a sizeable chunk of Wall Street and the U.S. elite isn’t already involved with the Russians financially. I mean, I don’t see Frank Gaffney going on talk radio shows calling for China to be kicked out of the WTO, even though it is a far worse abuser of human rights and copyright protections. Maybe because Wal-Mart isn’t stocked with Russian goods?
What I’m sick and tired of is the hypocrisy. This war isn’t about democracy or oil but about sheer power, realpolitik. And the Georgians and South Ossetians are the pawns.
