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I'm not criticizing you, Jerome.  You were named by POEMLESS as someone who routinely criticizes Russia, but in a different way than I do. It's clear that's palably untrue, and you've never said it was.  So I'm defintely sorry I bothered you.  It's clear that you rarely right about Russia, and when you do you're as apt to criticize Western policy towards Russia as hypocritical (telling them to get their own house in order first) as to attack the Kremlin's abuses.  So your blog is not a source a reader could turn to for daily criticism of Russia, as mine is.


Russia is the best country in the world . . . except for all the others!
by LaRussophobe (larussophobe@yahoo.com) on Tue Feb 20th, 2007 at 01:20:03 PM EST
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He was named by poemless as someone who routinely criticizes the Kremlin. The Kremlin. Not Russia. Can't you tell the difference?

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Tue Feb 20th, 2007 at 03:31:07 PM EST
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It's clear to me that he doesn't routinely criticize the Kremlin, that he's as likely to defend it from criticism as to criticize it, and he certainly doesn't specialize in Russia.  What's more, he's quite likely to be as abusive as me ("bugger off, loser") or more so.  Therefore, POEMLESS was wrong on both counts.

I'd like to add that I think it's highly offensive to the Russian people that you don't hold them accountable for what their government does.  Are they inferior beings like monkeys or dogs who can't be expected to come up to Western standards in this regard?  You ought to stop hating them so much.

So if he fails to call Russians to account for the acts of their elected government, he's even less a true critic of Russia and certainly no alternative to La Russophobe.

Russia is the best country in the world . . . except for all the others!

by LaRussophobe (larussophobe@yahoo.com) on Wed Feb 21st, 2007 at 03:43:54 PM EST
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La Russophobe : ... to come up to Western standards

"Western" ?
"standards" ?
Care to elaborate what those things are ?

by balbuz on Wed Feb 21st, 2007 at 04:03:47 PM EST
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to make such a natural typo...


It's clear that you rarely right about Russia

Was that a typo for "you're rarely right about Russia", or for "you rarely write about Russia", though?  The suspense is killing me.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Feb 20th, 2007 at 04:29:08 PM EST
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I'd call it a Freudian slip, with both meanings being intended in retrospect.  I find your suggestion that Bush is worse for the world than Putin abhorrent and disgusting (I'm no fan of Bush, who "looked into the eyes of Putin" as you might well imgagine).  I think that statment is hysterical and disconnected from rationality. But I'm not challenging your views on Russia, I'm just saying that you aren't offering a blog which offers a high volume of criticism of Russia with a different tone than my blog, as POEMLESS claimed.  To the extent you write about Russia, which isn't that often by my standards, you're given to abuse of a similar kind to what I doll out, so POEMLESS is wrong on both counts.

Russia is the best country in the world . . . except for all the others!
by LaRussophobe (larussophobe@yahoo.com) on Wed Feb 21st, 2007 at 03:37:51 PM EST
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So your blog is not a source a reader could turn to for daily criticism of Russia, as mine is.

That's a precarious position to be in, you know - faced with stiff competition from the US administration, most of the "serious" media of the West and many European governments, you might be drowned out soon. Would you consider this success, or failure?

Here, you might get frequent criticism of the Putinocrats.


In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Feb 20th, 2007 at 04:31:56 PM EST
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I'd consider it a fantastic success.  As I said in my interview with Andy, there's nothing I'd like more than to be put out of business because the world has got the message on Russia.

I think the change of power is an excellent harbinger that this may happen, and I believe that opposing the neo-Soviet Union is a perfect bipartisan task which can unify both the American parties and the America-Europe divide in a common and meritorious struggle.

Russia is the best country in the world . . . except for all the others!

by LaRussophobe (larussophobe@yahoo.com) on Wed Feb 21st, 2007 at 03:40:00 PM EST
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