Monthly Archives: August 2008

Schröder, Captain (of What Should be) Obvious

By AK | Published: August 20, 2008
In an interview in Spiegel, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder states the obvious, something that Washington and its British and east European lackies seem to have difficulty grasping. ‘Serious Mistakes by the West’ Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discusses the war in the Caucasus, the possibility of Germany serving as an intermediary in the conflict and his [...]
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The Other Point of View

By AK | Published: August 17, 2008
Russia: Other Points of View, predictably enough, has had a plethora of “rich” (in the “yeah, that’s rich!” sense of the word) materials to condemn the Western’s media’s tendency to present opinion and sensationalist rhetoric as fact in the service of one point of view (the West’s, or more particularly, America’s neocon foreign policy elite). [...]
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Words of Truth From Lavrov

By AK | Published: August 15, 2008
Western threats are meaningless. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began a trip to the region Thursday, beginning with talks in France on her way to Tbilisi. Lavrov, in remarks broadcast on Russian radio, sounded unconcerned about White House threats that Russia could suffer a chill in relations with the West because of its incursion into Georgia. “I don’t [...]
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Military Lessons of the Ossetian War

By AK | Published: August 15, 2008
War is the ultimate crucible where ideas, theories, etc, prove their worth based on outcomes. Russia’s brilliant performance in Georgia, documented by uncompromisable UPI military analyst Martin Seiff, demolished the grounds for the pessimism espoused by the likes of Pavel Felgenhauer or Aleksandr Golts regarding Russia’s real military strength. The mini-war between Russia and the former [...]
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Saakashvilisms

By AK | Published: August 15, 2008
Georgia’s glorius leader will surely go down in the annals of history alongside other great men of his calibre like Dubya… Aug 13 (Reuters) – Following are some of the various statements made on Wednesday by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili: TO CBS TELEVISION “In Georgia’s far region of South Ossetia… Russian tanks are going through villages inhabited by [...]
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Editorial: Deconstructing Russophobia

By AK | Published: August 12, 2008
Streetwise Professor wrote On Russophobia, The charge of “Russophobia” is hurled around with some abandon, and I have been the target of such accusations on more than one occasion, especially in the hothouse environment of the ongoing Russo-Georgian War. More often than not, this word is used as an ad hominem substitute for reasoned argument, and [...]
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Russia Blog Weighs In

By AK | Published: August 12, 2008
Patrick Armstron in Russia Today penned a polemic on the Importance of Chronology. … On Thursday August 7, 2008, President Saakashvili of Georgia went on TV and addressed his country. There had been outbreaks of shooting in South Ossetia for some weeks. Who started it this time? Who knows? Each side always points to something earlier and [...]
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The Meaning of the Ossetian War

By AK | Published: August 12, 2008
The Vineyard of the Saker pens a truly insightful article connecting Russia’s forceful, resolute response to the Maniac of Tbilisi’s craven aggression with Russians’ understanding of the sheer depths of the West’s hypocrisy, double standards and hate against them. The amazing and tragic events in South Ossetia seem to baffle most Western experts. While a majority [...]
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