Comments on: Russia’s new foreign policy http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/09/02/russias-new-foreign-policy/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:32:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: feeblemind http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/09/02/russias-new-foreign-policy/#comment-313729 feeblemind Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:15:47 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6736#comment-313729 From my point of view, Medvedev is contradicting himself with point 1 and point 5. Russia will obey international law has long as it doesn't stand in the way of 'priveleged interests'. Is that the way others read it or am I way off base? From my point of view, Medvedev is contradicting himself with point 1 and point 5. Russia will obey international law has long as it doesn’t stand in the way of ‘priveleged interests’. Is that the way others read it or am I way off base?

]]> By: Steven Den Beste http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/09/02/russias-new-foreign-policy/#comment-313709 Steven Den Beste Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:13:09 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6736#comment-313709 Point 4 sounds suspiciously like the justification Nazi Germany used to annex the Sudetenland and to invade Poland. And I think it was the nominal justification for the invasion of France: to take back Alsace-Lorraine, wasn't it? Anyway, what with the Soviet policy of dispersing Russians into all the conquered territories of the USSR, point 4 would justify invasion of all the former Soviet states, not just Ukraine. In particular, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. And there's the whole question of Kaliningrad, which is geographically isolated from the rest of Russia. How soon before they start demanding a land connection? Point 4 sounds suspiciously like the justification Nazi Germany used to annex the Sudetenland and to invade Poland. And I think it was the nominal justification for the invasion of France: to take back Alsace-Lorraine, wasn’t it?

Anyway, what with the Soviet policy of dispersing Russians into all the conquered territories of the USSR, point 4 would justify invasion of all the former Soviet states, not just Ukraine. In particular, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

And there’s the whole question of Kaliningrad, which is geographically isolated from the rest of Russia. How soon before they start demanding a land connection?

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