tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104564063710833120.post4187781264271036310..comments2023-06-19T05:58:09.065-07:00Comments on Diplomatic Perspective: Syria's future hangs by thin threadM.K.Bhadrakumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01091606400348979442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104564063710833120.post-34153834787391029672011-05-21T17:43:20.245-07:002011-05-21T17:43:20.245-07:00A lucid analysis indeed.
Russian government’s hy...A lucid analysis indeed. <br /><br />Russian government’s hypocritical conduct on R-1973 evokes the memory of those dreadful years that saw Yeltsin routinely trading old friends for quick western loans (at the time Serbs, others...)<br /><br />Of course, it is beyond imagination that Medvedev somehow “could not foresee” the effect of his abstention on R-1973 in the SC and that, poor he, only now “realizes the mistake”... C’mon. Grimm brother’s fairy tales.<br /><br />As for Syria, wait and see.Johanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07637423915409477890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104564063710833120.post-45033058393185635182011-05-19T07:28:07.928-07:002011-05-19T07:28:07.928-07:00Perhaps what is at stake is too big even for Russi...Perhaps what is at stake is too big even for Russia. Israel interests nowaday hang on a thin rope.Laocontehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11112549533307429144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104564063710833120.post-75888531287807862702011-05-19T03:46:48.468-07:002011-05-19T03:46:48.468-07:00I don't think the Russians would let themselve...I don't think the Russians would let themselves be taken for a ride again like with 1973. To quote George W., "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, same on you". Perhaps George W's most insightful comment in his tenure.<br /><br />Libya is, or was, far more aligned with the West than Syria. Russia has a LOT to lose if Assad goes down.drezzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10650504192307670268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104564063710833120.post-10464092884173020792011-05-19T02:45:56.064-07:002011-05-19T02:45:56.064-07:00Perhaps the title of this piece should be "As...Perhaps the title of this piece should be "Assad's future hangs by a thin thread". It is not at all clear that the demise of the present regime in Syria would be to the advantage of the European Union or the United States of America. The Russians and the Chinese, with a truck-load each of their own problems, may just decide to let the eager Western interventionists have their ways with Syria, via an "abstention" at the UN. Another quagmire for their competitors might not be all that bad for the Russians and the Chinese, pure geostrategic considerations if we can see beyond the immediate impact of such an intervention. For all we know, the Russians and the Chinese might just have thumbed through their copies of "Art of War" by Sun Zi or Mao Zedong's treaties on protracted war.ss0099218https://www.blogger.com/profile/05639925850053584231noreply@blogger.com