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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?


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lunarchick - 05:24pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4702 of 4719)
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Putin meets Bwsh next Sunday. This week Bwsh has 3 summits .... visits a few Euro Counties ... (not the UK) ... in Brussels on Wednesday.

Wonder if protesters will greet him with a Kyoto Cheer ?!

lunarchick - 05:27pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4703 of 4719)
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A 'comedy' plays on aussie tv ... Bwsh stars ... this look-alike-actor-Bwsh is talented, can act, sing and dance! No doubt digging for script material the writers will take time to visit the Bwsh ancestral line C20th.

lunarchick - 05:44pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4704 of 4719)
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Bush/EU

lunarchick - 05:46pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4705 of 4719)
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Putin

lunarchick - 07:03pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4706 of 4719)
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http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,504471,00.html

    Bush given idiot's guide to Europe
President receives special tuition to shed his ignorant image when he crosses the Atlantic

    lunarchick - 07:04pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4707 of 4719)
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    . First, they acknowledge, he must persuade Europe's leaders that he is not a buffoon.

    lunarchick - 07:08pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4708 of 4719)
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    Bwsh has done a lot for Europe already .. it's found itself!

    lunarchick - 07:10pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4709 of 4719)
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    http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,504375,00.html Russia - socio-cultural

    lunarchick - 07:14pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4710 of 4719)
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      """Russia was and remains a network of what Hosking calls patron-client networks. The patron/protector might be a boyar, a tsar, a president, a minister, a businessman, a criminal or abbot; the effect is the same, to undermine what fragile national institutions or laws exist on paper.
    One of Russia's tragedies is that its rulers have often understood this, that it would be better to devolve power to representative institutions, assemblies and judges, rather than to individuals. But they have always drawn back, terrified of the vastness of their country, the volatile passions of its people, and the difficulty of defending its borders without tight personal control; under pressure from patrons and protectors who do not want to lose privileges; and repeatedly convinced, against all lessons of history, that absolute monarchies or dictatorships can ram through radical reforms without reforming themselves.
      Sifting the sixteenth-century tsar Ivan the Terrible's bloody insanity from his statecraft, Hosking accuses him of 'inaugurating a tradition that in order to unite and mobilise, Russian rulers had to be harsh and overbearing, even to violate God's law, to the extent of risking disunity and demoralisation, and of undermining the ideals which the monarchy itself professed... thus was launched the peculiarly Russian style of governance: a huge, diverse and vulnerable empire resting on personal powerbroking' """ (above)

        lunarchick - 07:20pm Jun 10, 2001 EST (#4711 of 4719)
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