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An alternative to gunboat diplomacy



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Published Date: 29 August 2008
HISTORY says that when great powers start squaring up to each other, gunboats are first to appear. Thus the decision of the US government to send the flagship of its Sixth Fleet, the USS Mount Whitney, into the Black Sea looks troubling.
Coming the day after David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, visited Ukraine, in the heart of what was once Moscow's unquestioned sphere of influence, and delivered a tough message warning Russia against starting a new Cold War, it would be easy to i...



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  • Last Updated: 28 August 2008 8:37 PM
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Neil,

Glasgow 29/08/2008 12:43:37
What we can say with absloute certainty is that those politicians who supported intervention in Kosovo are not only war criminals who deliberately participated in genocide but that those among them who now criticise Russia for intervening purely to prevent genocide are wholly & completely corrupt racists who can have no place in any decent trustworthy government.

Obviously the same applies to the journalists who lied to help them.

 

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