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Wednesday, August 5, 2015 11:52 AM

THGRRI


Russian Enmity Toward U.S. Fueled by Own Weakness

"As one very senior Kremlin official pointed out to me -- he said: 'Hey, don't take it personally. We need an enemy now, for election purposes, for foreign policy purposes. The United States is the obvious candidate and you are the poster child for the enemy'," McFaul said.

http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-mcfaul-interview/27172404.html

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015 3:30 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


Good article, here's another - how Russia could disintegrate after Putin http://worldif.economist.com/article/2/what-if-russia-breaks-up-the-pe
ril-beyond-putin


It basically describes how Russia goes through a cycle of aggressive militarism on the world stage just before state collapse, and all the different ethnic fault lines in Russia where the country has fractured or come close to fracturing in the past.

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In the words of Mikhail Iampolski, a historian, Russia at present resembles a khanate in which local princes receive a licence to rule from the chief khan in the Kremlin. For the past decade the main job of the Moscow-appointed governors has been to provide votes for Mr Putin. In exchange they received a share of oil revenues and the right to rule as they see fit. Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov, a former warlord installed by Mr Putin, is a grotesque illustration of this. In the most recent presidential election, Chechnya provided 99.7% of its votes for Mr Putin with a turnout of 99.6%. In return, Mr Kadyrov receives subsidies and freedom to subject his people to his own “informal” taxes and Islamic rules. Moscow pays a dictatorial and corrupt Chechnya a vast due in return for Mr Kadyrov pretending to be part of Russia and pledging loyalty to Mr Putin.

If Mr Putin goes and the money runs out, Chechnya could be the first to break off. This would have a dramatic effect on the rest of the north Caucasus region. Neighbouring Dagestan, a far bigger and more complex republic than Chechnya, could fragment. A conflict in the Caucasus combined with the weakness of the central government in Russia could make other regions want to detach themselves from Moscow’s problems.



It's not personal. It's just war.

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Thursday, August 6, 2015 2:13 PM

THGRRI


Yep and let's not forget while the world is cutting it's ties to Russia, Putin is cutting Russia's ties to the world. By banning much of the world from doing business with Russia as a form of retaliation, Putin is creating a self induced set of sanctions. Much of what is being banned is food products. Not to smart to push this while locus have destroyed more than 10% of Russia's crops and counting.


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Friday, August 7, 2015 9:01 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


I thought it was vodka

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