Russian news on Iraq

ChrisD(RJ) chrisd at russiajournal.com
Mon Mar 24 02:10:41 PST 2003


ChrisD(RJ) wrote:


>Russia vows to stop US move to legitimise Iraq war

What's going on here? What's the Russian gov't up to? Have they been freaked out by US behavior? An EU-Russia axis would be very interesting.

Doug --- I'm trying to figure it out myself.

The Washington-Moscow rapprochement was about 1) Moscow basically using the US as proxies to wipe out the Taliban and 2) trade. No. 1 is taken care of, No. 2 hasn't materialized.Now that the Chechens are on the terrorist list, there's not much point anymore in allying with the States.

Europe is much more important to Russia than the US. They buy its gas.

Interestingly, splitting Europe and the US is long-standing Soviet strategy.



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