Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Russia

Russia is going to hell in a hand basket.
The way I see it we do not have many options.
We can one: Support the further breaking up of countries off of Russia by guaranteeing the sovereignty of these counties with out military.

Two: Watch as Russia falls further down the economic ladder as it is made more and more uncompetitive by the closing down of market freedoms (either incomplete market reforms or a reversion back to a form of communism).

Many of the articles that I have read seem to place Russia in the economic phase America was in during the early twentieth century (With robber baron's and the like). In a lot of ways they are even further behind on the democratic front.

No matter how you see the situation, this article is an interesting read.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/09/russia.rybkin/

If many of the stories coming out of Russia are true, Putin is going to be another dictator, and Titor is/was right.

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