Primakov doctrine

[Ulhas Joglekar]

From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:04 PM
> I would suppose that an alliance among Russia, China, India, & Iran
> would be no stranger today (whatever its serious internal tensions) than
> an alliance linking the USSR, Britain, & the U.S. was in the 1940s. The
> earlier alliance linked enemies together against what was the major
> threat to the world in the 1940s; the projected alliance would link
> disparate powers in an alliance against what is the major threat to the
> world today.

What would an alliance linking Russia and other nations seek to achieve in
practical terms? How would it achieve its goals given the superiority of the
G-8 nations led by the US in trade, technology, capital flows, media
domination etc.? It is not the anti-imperialist ideological fervour that
drives foreign policies, but pragmatic considerations. Anti-imperialism died
long ago, now even anti-imperialist rhetoric has vanished.

Ulhas