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Originally Posted by CCIP
I think the West is in the causeless-revenge-mode (for what?) again. In that same mode, they blew the chance to help a real democracy get established in Russia; now it's too late. It's not too late not to antagonize the current state though and work with them on peaceful terms....
I'm sorry, but that's just a plain stupid statement. If anything it'd be the other way; it'd be pretty pathetic for Russia to stoop to the level of wooing a good-for-nothing rogue state. They might get a few bucks selling stuff that the Iranians want but, I assure you, Russia could (and in my view, should) do without Iran.
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Well, I'm sure that my above comments are pretty stupid, I've never really been accused of being very bright. But I did write my thesis for my second master's degree on the I.M.F.'s bailout program vis-a-vis the Russian Government from 1992-96, so I do know a bit about that, even if my knowledge is very imperfect, and how the west was supposed to baby-sit the third Rome into enlightened liberalism is beyond me.
Russia seems to think they need Iran, the former continues to sell the latter nuclear equiptment despite the crazed ruminations of the current glorious leader of Iran. Of course, given Russia's history of pogroms, it probably doesn't bother the Russian leadership very much that an Anti-Semite has such weapons. Maybe Russia thinks that a nuclear Iran might help them out with their security problems, but that would be
pretty stupid.
I know that the U.S. government
stupidly sold nuclear tech. to the Shah, but that was the same administration that signed onto the ABM treaty, a lot of bright ideas came out of the Nixon Administation....
Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.