--- amadeus amadeus <amadeus482000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeeeeeeee-HAW! Black Sea here we come! Whoop!
> Whoop!
> $.99.99/gallon baby!
>
(rolls eyes)
I have said this a billion times. This is not about geopolitics. This is about the Western media interpreting everything about being about the West.
Anybody who has been following the CIS for any length of time has seen this story played out a million times. Every political conflict, down to the city level (!), is interpreted by the Western media as being about bring about a pro-Western outsider vs. a corrupt anti-Western incumbent. In a few years, when it becomes clear that the new leader cannot be "pro-Western" (whatever that means), because it's objectively impossible, and when the corruption in the regime becomes obvious, as it inevitably does since it's part of the political culture in the CIS, the former outsider begins to take on the role of the corrupt incumbent, and a new "pro-Western" outsider appears. This is exactly what happened to Shevardnadze and Kuchma. Curiously, Shevy was getting portrayed as pro-Russian in the US media at the same time as the Russian media were painting him as fanatically anti-Russian.
===== Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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