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| Medvedev: Russia to restore friendly ties with Georgia |
| 2008-09-20 |
| "We ... will do everything possible to restore regular, friendly relations," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday at a meeting with representatives of public organizations. Meanwhile, he accused NATO of provoking the conflict in Georgia last month, and called for new pan-European security arrangements. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Russia's invasion of Georgia should become the new dictionary definition of "fail". It is like the scene in a bad comedy when the hero slams the door to his car and it completely falls apart, leaving only the frame, seat and detached steering wheel in his hands. If Medvedev and Putin are smart, they need to back burner every ambitious idea they have and do what is necessary to get their economy at peak efficiency. To a great extent, this means re-democratization, replacing most of the FSB government managers with successful businessmen, and adopting the national slogan: "The business of Russia is business." None of their other concerns matter to a fraction as much as doing this. It's not because they want to, it's because they have to. One of the few intelligent things that Jesse Jackson once said was that "If 100 businessmen agree on something, it becomes the law." And while he said it derisively, it is not untrue. But the zinger is that it is not easy to get 100 businessmen to agree on *anything*, so if they do, there are probably a very, very good reasons to make it the law. This is because the invisible hand of economics is the closest thing there is to the invisible hand of god. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-09-20 12:02 |
| #4 25% increase in Offense Defense spending Any army needs to update its equipment - there is nothing unusual about that . . . |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-09-20 09:13 |
| #3 I'm sure we won't get the real story so we're left with estimating that 'things did not go as planned' in the execution department. The other posting on a 25% increase in |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-20 08:31 |
| #2 I approve of gorb's message. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-09-20 05:39 |
| #1 IOW: OOPS! |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-09-20 03:24 |