"The United States won the Cold War, but the Russian bear is now eating our lunch in terms of world competition."

(thanks to s in macedonia...)

dan simpson in the pittsburgh post-gazette shares a perspective that doesn't seem to be getting much visibility in our bushco-strangled media...

• Russian intelligence, working from information it claimed to have gained from U.S. defense sources, passed U.S. military plans to Saddam Hussein's military forces in Baghdad.

• Russia has also through skillful diplomacy dealt itself into the pivotal role in the Iran nuclear issue.

• With the United States refusing to talk with Hamas, and pushing the Western Europeans to pursue an equally shortsighted approach, the Russians moved fast and invited Hamas's leaders to Moscow and made a big fuss of them.

• Other recent Russian successes include the new gas pipeline deal that Mr. Putin concluded with Chinese President Hu Jintao during his visit this month to China.

• The United States for many years monitored Soviet and Russian military activities from Iceland, strategically located in the North Atlantic in terms of both anti-submarine warfare and tracking of Russian war planes. This month the Pentagon announced that the United States was withdrawing all U.S. forces from Iceland after more than six decades there, a move presumably dictated by resource issues, those almost certainly driven by the demands of the Iraq war.

• Mr. Putin is now poised to cap his various political gains of recent months by hosting a highly visible G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July.

• The United States is currently weakened in its dealings with Russia by the drains of the Iraq war; a chronic budget deficit; no effective energy policy; and a growing, unfavorable balance of trade.

a sorry chronicle like the above easily prompts more charges of bushco incompetence... as bizarre as it might sound, i stand by my view that a major goal of the criminals in the white house is to engender world chaos and instability... if so, they are absolutely on the right track...

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