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No Wonder They Like Putin
Norman Stone explains why the West should stop its finger-wagging."The Russian people know what they want and their message is clear."

What a statist article

Submitted by otto kerner on Tue, 2007-12-04 23:36.
The analogy to de Gaulle is strange, since de Gaulle withdrew from Algeria.

"... a historic trend that, if continued, might have broken up Russia altogether". The author says this as if it were a bad thing.

Good Article

Submitted by khalderman on Tue, 2007-12-04 13:29.
This was a very good article and I thought Justin Raimondo had some interesting things to say on the subject too. Historically, except for the Communist era, we have always gotten on very well with the Russians. Can you imagine the kind of beneficial relationship we could have with them if Ron Paul was running our foreign policy?