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In fact, a good bit of the analysis of Cheney's speech isn't that Russia is evil as a result, but that, in addition to an attack on Rice's position, it's also a salvo in gas wars.<BR/><BR/>2) I think Lyndon's comparisons are interesting for a second point -- and that is that, with all major powers, you're going to have people who don't like you. That's life. Sure, you try to put facts in the media (which, I think, is all Putin's doing with getting a PR firm), and you recognize that you can't shut yourself off from the world (Russia's foreign account surplus comes, by definition, from trade with foreign sources -- otherwise it wouldn't be a "foreign" account surplus). That said, you'll have pot-shots taken at you.<BR/><BR/>Now, admittedly, Russia does have another option, and Konstantin expressed it. You can shut off the rest of the world and pretend it doesn't exist. Just stop trade and become an ignored backwater. After all, when was the last time you heard of any news from Tuvalu?<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, if Russia wants to be the power it can be, then, well, it gets the full package.<BR/><BR/>Those of us from the US and China simply say, "Oh, you're getting disparaged? Welcome to the club."<BR/><BR/>-- twicker<BR/><BR/>(fyi, I'm posting this from the lobby of the Intourist Hotel in Krasnodar -- and, frankly, I think you need to start fixing your image problems at home before you worry about the ones abroad. Things ain't so bad -- but, whenever anything isn't quite perfect, I commonly hear people say, "Welcome to Russia" as a way of explaining it. Whereas, even though not everything in America is perfect, you wouldn't hear Americans saying, "Welcome to America" as a way of explaining the breakdown. I doubt you'd hear it from the Chinese, too.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10366934.post-1146793178223325742006-05-05T05:39:00.000+04:002006-05-05T05:39:00.000+04:00The "sobaka laet" chestnut was employed to best ef...The "sobaka laet" chestnut was employed to best effect, in my memory at any rate, by the late, great Aleksandr Lebed'. I've always found it interesting to imagine what a Lebed' presidency might have looked like, but I think it might not have lived up to my expectations.<BR/><BR/>Getting more on topic, it's true that the US has a whole cohort of professional Sovietologists, some of whom have been unable or unwilling to break out of their 1980's mode of analysis. I think it is fair to point out that Russia also has a generation of foreign relations professionals who grew up regarding the US with hostility, and I think it's been easy for people in Russia inside and outside of the policy elite to fall back into this comfortable mindset. <BR/><BR/>The US and Russia both have "image problems," as does, for example, China, and in every one of these cases the "image problems" reflect legitimate flaws and criticisms, at least to a certain extent - does this mean that each of these large countries, whose spheres of interest (territorial, economic, security, etc.) cannot help but bump into each other in today's world should just "go its own way"? At some point the caravans will collide.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, Putin or whoever he's got managing the media can't seem to do without the West - an external "enemy" is required for domestic consumption, and sadly foreign NGO's seem to be it.Scraps of Moscowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09154874166149426406noreply@blogger.com