What To Do About Russia?
The West's biggest problem in the fallout from last month's fighting in Georgia is that it doesn't know what it wants (apart from that all parties should behave as though the events never happened at all). The U.S. and Europe seem only to know what they don't want (which is Russia breathing down their necks).
In this vein, the Economist has spent the last few days running a debate. My friend Lane Greene is moderating replies to the proposition: The West must be bolder in its response to a more assertive Russia.
As one might suspect, many of the replies revolve around indecision on whether Russia should be vilified or praised, and who hit whom first in South Ossetia. Yet it's worth taking a look.
In this vein, the Economist has spent the last few days running a debate. My friend Lane Greene is moderating replies to the proposition: The West must be bolder in its response to a more assertive Russia.
As one might suspect, many of the replies revolve around indecision on whether Russia should be vilified or praised, and who hit whom first in South Ossetia. Yet it's worth taking a look.
Labels: georgia, Russia, south ossetia
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Ah, yes. That's the debate that got David Axe called a "Kremlin dupe", simply for saying that Georgia started it and that we shouldn't worry that much about Russia because its military isn't that good. When they lose one of their elite bomber aircrews to a Georgia SAM, and NATO has more combined tonnage of military ships in the Black Sea than Russia, it's rather hard to argue that they are a preeminent military power of the day. They're not insignificant, but it's not that big a deal.
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