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- Rizoh, on 08/21/2008, -1/+4Let me get this straight: Lieberman goes to Georgia, comes back and decides to audition for Secretary of State by reviving that dumb idea of ousting big bad Russia from G8? I wonder what they fed him down there in Tbilisi.
- Wilarseny, on 08/22/2008, -0/+1Hm, push to be McCain's VP, or just sheer idiocy? The thing I don't get about all this is that working with Russia against fundamentalist regimes would seem to be on Israel's--and thus the neoconservative right's--agenda. Am I missing something here, other than the inertia from so many years of antagonistic rhetoric?
- inactive, on 08/22/2008, -0/+1Well, you only exaggerated by a factor of 2. For you that is candor.
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The US miltary budget is about the size of Russia's GDP. Non resource extraction businesses will countinue flounder because of the risk to shareholders of being plundered by the gangsters in the Kremlin. Hmm, Putin's puppet runs unopposed while political opponents like Kasparov are harassed, jailed, and murdered. Who do you think you are kidding?
Liebs is a great friend of McCain. If McCain wins (which is increasingly likely) he will be Secretary of State or Defense. This neocon dream will become your nightmare. - BabyWookie, on 08/22/2008, -2/+3He is just another neocon hawk. His ilk has been working really hard to start ***** up with Russia for years.
- BabyWookie, on 08/22/2008, -1/+1In 2007, Russia's GDP was $2.076 trillion, the 6th largest in the world, with GDP growing 8.1% from the previous year. Growth was primarily driven by non-traded services and goods for the domestic market, as opposed to oil or mineral extraction and exports. Despite higher energy prices, oil and gas only contribute to 5.7% of Russia's GDP and the government predicts this will drop to 3.7% by 2011.
Russia is mildly authoritarian, but it's a far cry from a "dictatorship". It doesn't even begin to compare to China or the former USSR. Russia is about as much of a "liberal democracy" as the US and Georgia are. If Russia goes, so should the US.
Also, Liebermann is an Israeli spy and a traitor to the United States. Only in your delusional neocon dream will he ever become a part of the next US cabinet. - inactive, on 08/22/2008, -1/+1The G-8 is a group of liberal democracies with a stake in the international trading system. Russia is a dictatorship with a limited extraction based economy and a wretched record of harrassing international business. Lieberman (our next Secretary of Defense) is right on. The Ruskies must go.
- atdigg, on 08/21/2008, -6/+1Why dumb? Seems like a great idea.
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