Towards A Russo-Slavic Union?



Expect increased cooperation between Russia and it's Slavic "client states." How could there not be? President George Bush overestimated the amount of humiliation that Putin would put up with before snapping and turning against the United States of America. In the last stages of their "friendship (Averted Gaze)" -- where the President looked directly into the Russian President's soul -- Bush relied on the gloriously Evil Henry Kissinger, the hero of crypto-tyrants, everywhere.

And it happened.

Richard Holbrooke wrote last March in The Washington Post:

"Putin says Russia will not support anything that the Serbs oppose. If this means a Russian veto in the Security Council, or an effort to water down or delay Ahtisaari's plan, the fragile peace in Kosovo will evaporate within days, and a new wave of violence -- possibly even another war -- will erupt. Ahtisaari's plan, probably the best possible under current circumstances, does not satisfy more extreme Albanians -- because it does not provide instant independence and because of its emphasis on protecting Serbs who chose to remain in Kosovo.

Yet instead of working to avert violence in Kosovo, Russia seems to be enjoying the opportunity to defy key Western countries, especially Germany and the United States."

It will probably take a generation to repair the damage done by the pseudo-Slavophile Condi Rice Doctrine. The wealth of Europe, at the doorstep of the Slavic nations, presents the perfect bitter target. And the Russian Bear, once mangy during Yeltsin, now sports an oily sheen. And it guards the spigots of Europe's oil.

Expect Russia and the Slavic nations to breathe down Europe's neck. Let's hope Europe, divided, realizes the threat that the Russian Bear and it's angry, Slavic satellites possibly represents.