Mark is wrong, Sergey and Coisty are right to be more cynical about Ukraine. How exactly was Timoshenko anti-’Putinist’ anyway, when Putin himself called her a woman he could ‘do business with’ and Yuschenko denounced her for cutting deals with Moscow on gas while he wanted to keep playing the victim card?

Hell, the Ukrainian election isn’t the only inconvenient story the anti-Russian neocons have ignored of late. Try this one:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html

CIA moonlights in corporate world – Politico

I guess we’ll have to wait a while before the WSJ, Weekly Standard, NRO, Economist comment on that one. Because of course, no one told them what to say during the Georgia War…and you guys wonder why Russians are cynical about U.S. intentions and ‘media freedom’?

They always wrote that the difference between America and Russia was that if you do business with Russia, you’re doing biz with KGB men, and everyone can quote the Putin line about there being no such thing as ex-KGB men, hence KGB. So with Simon Johnson writing in The Atlantic that America is becoming like the Russia of the 90s, where’s the difference now?

Still useful on some domestic policy things (except for Rich Lowry’s weird defense of Ben Bernanke, which should earn him a swift kick in the butt from Bill Buckley’s shade), but when it comes to foreign policy, useless hypocrites nearly the lot of em’.