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If Stratfor is taking that from US intelligence it is presumably from the same geniuses who regularly offer us their acute historical analysis of the Middle East in the pages of the Weekly Standard and NR - it sounds at about their level. The Soviet Union did come as close as any power did to uniting Eurasia - that is a decade plus starting after WWII to the late fifties - by that point Mao had decided he had no interest in playing second fiddle to the the Soviets and Western Europe had been consolidated into the Western Bloc under NATO. Nor does Belarus have much to do with 'breaking up' Russia - at its most cynical it can be seen as seeking to take a client state of Russia's and turn it into a client state of the US - that's no more breaking up Russia than the USSR's support of Castro was breaking up the US. The article also suffers under the bizarre delusion that the US invasion of Iraq happened last fall, so I'd be a bit wary of taking it too seriously.
by MarekNYC on Thu Dec 28th, 2006 at 06:50:11 PM EST
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I'm not trying to argue for their position - their stance on geopolitics is peculiar at best. But - these guys reflect the point of view of a significant part of the US establishment, especially its military and intelligence circles. Therefore, I hope someone behind the Kremlin walls is reading them very carefully.

For us here, Iraq debacle is just that - a debacle. For many Iraqis, it's a catastrophe as they are on the receiving end of a misguided policy. The stuff these guys write might put myself, my family and friends, and my country, into another disaster. I've lived through one, and it was one too many for me. So, I cannot help noticing similarities between Lugar's thinking and the paragraph I quoted.

by Sargon on Fri Dec 29th, 2006 at 06:51:13 AM EST
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