--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
> The Russian and Indian governments might have
> thought that there
> could be an alliance with Washington on the premise
> of "fighting
> terrorists together," but "together" doesn't come
> easily to
> Washington. Since then, Washington has repaid
> Moscow with the "Rose
> and Orange Revolutions," and if it has not exploited
> the Chechen
> question as much as it might have back in the days
> of the Cold War,
> that's only because it doesn't have the means to do
> so any longer.
The Citrus Revolutions were not orchestrated by Washington; they were orchestrated by pissed-off Georgians and Ukrainians, and, as I have said earlier, they don't matter very much for a variety of reasons. The US has frozen the bank accounts of organizations funnelling money to the Chechens, and the late and unlamented Yandarbiyev and Basaev are on the international terrorist list. This is very much in Russia's interest. Squishing the Talibs is in the interests of all ex-Soviet Central Asian states, which is why they let US forces into them. Uzbeks and Kyrgyz and Tajiks are very aware of the danger Talibs represent(ed). They know it from personal experience.
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