I go on holiday and just look what happens: Russia restarts the Cold War, and History-- which we were famously told had Ended in 1989 -- revs up again. The west is apparently amazed, appalled, flummoxed, caught on the hop. What planet are these people all living on? Because of course History never stopped. The idea that after the Wall came down Russia had become our ally, or at least had stopped being our enemy, was always absurd. It has never stopped acting against the west -- particularly by funding, arming and encouraging the murderously anti-western forces in the Middle East -- even while it has proceeded to make its oligarchic fortune from it. The real message of what happened in Georgia, where Putin successfully provoked Saakashvili to walk straight into his trap, is that what has changed is not Russia’s...
History starts again
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
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