McCain's rant last night that Putin is ex-KGB is part of this. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice seemed determined to piss off Russia since before Bush took office in 2001. The missile "defense" shield was the #1 priority of the Bush administration before being "gifted" with a terrorist attack in September 2001.
You know better than I, I suspect, how much of a non-started a U.S.-run missile "defense" shield on the backdoor of Russia annoyed the Russians. I believe there has been a calculated, concerted effort on behalf of the powers in Washington to jump start a second Cold War.
The sad part is, for me, that Obama seems to buy into this plan, in part.
I suppose one is only as good as one's advisors, and Obama's advisors include Cold Warrior hawk Zbigniew Brzezinski and Michael McFaul, who sits on the board of Freedom House (which the Kremlin is convinced is a nest of Russophobic spies) and who has some weird personal vendetta against Vladimir Putin, which you can read about here.
As much as I hate to say it, there are logical reasons Russia used to prefer Republican U.S. Administrations. (At this point, I think the Kremlin has just given up hope of any sanity coming out of Washington, regardless the party in charge, though I hear Obama is popular among the Russian kids.) "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
I don't even understand why the question was asked. I'll bet you 99% of the US population wouldn't be able to find Georgia on a map. (Hell, I'll bet you a buck that 70% can't find the state of Georgia on a map in this country.)
It's bullshit, but fortunately I think it's now off the table given that the last debate is on the economy. I doubt very much we're going to hear much about Russia for the next four years. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
A lot of clues from whom he chooses for his cabinet, still, after he's elected. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
