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I think I'm with Migeru on this one: it'll take a generation of politicians that didn't grow up depending on Uncle Sam to protect them from the Big Bad Bear to take power before the instinctive assumption that US interests == European interests wears off.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 09:52:55 AM EST
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Re: More QUESTIONS: (4.00 / 2)

From the sounds of things the Big Bad Bear is just a bunch of thugs with a lot of oil revenue.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 10:02:17 AM EST
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Re: More QUESTIONS: (4.00 / 4)

Except for the oil revenue, that makes it almost exactly like the US.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 at 10:22:46 AM EST
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Re: More QUESTIONS: (4.00 / 2)

Seeing as post-communists can be as much Atlanticist as any old Cold Warrior, and seeing the symplistic mythology people even younger than me have absorbed as recent history, I am even more pessimistic. It should take people who fight for some new vision who can break the unrealised pre-assumptions of common wisdom.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 04:10:05 AM EST
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