tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post7690783053712264006..comments2023-04-12T12:47:42.615+03:00Comments on AnTyx: As Good a Version as Anyantyxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567309109757565293noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-16571391965532358412007-10-19T17:07:00.000+03:002007-10-19T17:07:00.000+03:00Germany may need Russian gas, but they don't neces...Germany may need Russian gas, but they don't necessarily need the pipe. They're getting the gas through Poland already, and there is unused capacity in the Blue Stream pipe that goes down to Turkey - would be far easier to jack that into the European network. (However, this potentially allows access to Caspian reserves, bypassing Russia entirely, so Russia is fighting it.)<BR/><BR/>Also, I'm antyxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06567309109757565293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-52696822179872238162007-10-19T17:03:00.000+03:002007-10-19T17:03:00.000+03:00"Whenever Russia and Germany are on friendly terms..."Whenever Russia and Germany are on friendly terms, the rest of Europe can count on some cataclysmic events. But Germany REALLY need the gas... And Russia doesn't have any other friends..."<BR/><BR/>one of my Uni professors<BR/><BR/>... because friends you terrorize into being your friends aren't your friends. Not really.Dorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12942338677951019959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-42805072422898739642007-10-16T08:26:00.000+03:002007-10-16T08:26:00.000+03:00I guess I might be misrepresenting the spirit of F...I guess I might be misrepresenting the spirit of Furman's article. There's no measure of certainty that Putin's efforts will ultimately lead to a healing of the political situation in Russia; but there is an off chance that, providing a wildly unlikely sequence of serendipitous events, it just might. After all, the article was written not so much as a prediction, but as a grand "wtf?", an attemptantyxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06567309109757565293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-59047990070903264782007-10-16T08:13:00.000+03:002007-10-16T08:13:00.000+03:00Well, AT, it seems like you & Furman are making so...Well, AT, it <I>seems</I> like you & Furman are making some virtue out of Putin's self-defined necessity.<BR/><BR/>Or perhaps I'm missing something, y'know, between the lines.<BR/><BR/>Talking up Russia's European identity sounds encouraging. But, from an analytical perspective, it gets a bit wishy-washy and fuzzy-wuzzy. Which is why so many social scientists and historians try to steer clear of ARKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16714977069646966097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-14524159518828792442007-10-16T08:12:00.000+03:002007-10-16T08:12:00.000+03:00This comment has been removed by the author.ARKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16714977069646966097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-73665562006729090862007-10-10T13:15:00.000+03:002007-10-10T13:15:00.000+03:00Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a...Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of<BR/>the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.<BR/><BR/> -Rudyard Kipling 1865 --1936<BR/>Life's Handicap, "The Man Who Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-737777470008203352007-10-10T11:34:00.000+03:002007-10-10T11:34:00.000+03:00Russians would never agree on "resembling Amsterda...Russians would never agree on "resembling Amsterdam". The idea is make Amsterdam resemble Petersburg.Estonia in World Media (Rus)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13791711276337826586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-54836655711457108282007-10-10T09:23:00.000+03:002007-10-10T09:23:00.000+03:00Sure, could very well be. (I think the common noti...Sure, could very well be. (I think the common notion is of Venice rather than Amsterdam, but yeah.) There's definitely an understanding of the "St. Petersburg Team", Putin's confidants, against the Moscow establishment.antyxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06567309109757565293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-63364090730897220082007-10-10T09:15:00.000+03:002007-10-10T09:15:00.000+03:00One of the concepts I have read over the years is ...One of the concepts I have read over the years is the Moscow v. St. Petersburg idea -- that St. Petersburg strives for 'Europeanness' while isolated Moscow strives for 'Central Asian Empire.'<BR/><BR/>So this might play into Furman's assessment that St. Petersburg-born Putin wants to at least look European.<BR/><BR/>Isn't that the mission statement of the city itself -- to resemble Amsterdam?Giustinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04756707910693785516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-77584932673923310212007-10-07T09:22:00.000+03:002007-10-07T09:22:00.000+03:00I'm not an insider of Russian politics, so I must ...I'm not an insider of Russian politics, so I must rely on sources from others and their conclusions. Reading your perspective it reminded me what journalists wrote about Korea (South) before it became a democracy after the Olympics 88. Before, the journalists were arriving from Japan when something happened there, mostly violent stuff as they wrote, but they could not see that behind protests, Jens-Olafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18304784095687896639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16421782.post-25521932866948864132007-10-07T08:42:00.000+03:002007-10-07T08:42:00.000+03:00Nothing is impossible in Russia but reform. -Os...Nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.<BR/><BR/> -Oscar Wilde 1854 --1900<BR/>Michael, in Vera, or The Nihilists (1880).<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."<BR/><BR/> -Sir Winston Churchill<BR/>Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939. Churchill added: "But perhaps there is a key.. . Russian national interest."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com