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...last name comes from the defunct state of Prussia. Its old capital, Konigsberg—renamed Kaliningrad by the Russians??seldom makes the news for much of anything. That changed, at least temporarily, when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the day after Barack Obama’s election to the White House that Russia would place missiles in Kaliningrad in response to a Bush administration project, a planned missile shield in Poland...
...There is little legitimacy to Russia’s justification for their behavior. I, for one, did not realize that they faced such a military threat from NATO and the European Union. Moreover, I sincerely doubt the Russians?? suspicion that the defense shield’s stated intention of intercepting missiles coming from the Middle East is simply a pretense to encroach upon their territory...
...declaring dissidents insane in order to control their behavior did not end with Hitler or Stalin. Today, in Russia, as the Los Angeles Times reported on May 30, local governments quietly hustle off to mental asylums those individuals who get on the wrong side of local politicians. Considering the Russians?? track record under Soviet rule, perhaps that’s no surprise...
What’s more important than Kerry’s statements on the campaign, of course, is his record. He voted against significant anti-Cold War efforts, and spoke against our “paranoia about the Russians?? in a 1971 speech before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 1970, he told the Harvard Crimson that U.S. troops should only be spread around by world at the order of the U.N. And recently Senator Kerry said that he “went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before...
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