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Money and friendly corporations can make Cold Warriors think logically:

"The Baltic Sea pipeline would not lead to a one-sided dependency on Russia, which would in fact be dangerous," says CDU foreign policy spokesman Eckart von Klaeden. "After all, the enormous Russian investments have to be paid off."


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 03:45:25 AM EST
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standing firm on this.

There is an increasingly long list of topics on which Germany is standing firm to the US. Which makes France's position (up Bush's ass) all the more annoying.

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 04:09:55 AM EST
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In this case, heavy business interests are involved, so what surprises me is only the sharpness of the tone. Still, despite Martin's arguments (the saying he quotes in English c.: "Friendship ends where money is involved") with the other examples I agree, as I discussed with him the other day, I almost see the beginnings of an independent foreign policy of the current government.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 04:38:30 AM EST
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