Lee on Aug 29 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Saakashvili has finally severed all Georgian diplomatic ties with Russia. A bit overdue, I must say.
Meanwhile, Putin, in his ongoing effort to legitimize the Russian invasion of Georgia, again compared his country’s actions to the NATO intervention against Serbia –which Russia and Putin himself still opposes in principle as illegitimate, but nevermind. Putin argued that [...]
Lee on Aug 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says “the world can forget about” Georgia’s territorial integrity. Quite a remarkable statement from the former permanent representative to the United Nations. As a statement of purpose or justification in his country’s war, it is of course an explicit violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter.
Furthermore, Lavrov’s [...]
Lee on Aug 10 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
The point has been made more than once that the Russian incursion into South Ossetia is ideologically motivated as a retaliatory gesture for Kosovo independence. Wu Wei makes a fine point about why this is not plausible if so:
The Kosovo Albanians had had 10 years of oppression by Slobodan Milosovic in Yugoslavia before it broke [...]
Lance on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Blogs, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page
Start off with a look at his wonderful post and photo’s on the destruction of Serbia’s oldest theater. Then poke around, read who he is. Enjoy. Yet another part of the antitotalitarian left searching for what that means anymore:
A blog devoted to political commentary and analysis with a particular - but far from exclusive - [...]
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