RFE/RL Roundup: Bear Watching
Nice gesture by Medvedev; let’s hope he does more. Too bad Stalin’s the “strong Russia” model Putin is going for.
The Russia Lobby continues to press Washington. Matlock’s arguments about the effects of admitting Georgia and Ukraine aren’t trivial, but are undermined by his basing them on the Fallacy of Foreign-Policy Egocentrism:
He added that genuine strategic cooperation with Moscow, which vehemently opposes NATO membership for the two former Soviet republics, would be nearly impossible “as long as we’re pushing this.”
Why, Mr. Matlock, if Russia is interested in “genuine strategic cooperation,” won’t she lay off her neighbors and allow them to make their own foreign-policy decisions?
And Moldova continues to simmer. Tick, tick, tick.
Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.