So the first analyses of the USA-Cuba tussle over Russian Missiles are being published.

Don't be fooled by the Communist - especially Russian and Chinese - media consensus (for example, this article on the ever dumb Pravda screaming OMG American invasion!): this time the Shanghai Daily's view that this was a Cuban aggressive gamble is absolutely correct.

According to almost all independent reporters, the operations were kickstarted by the Cubans hosting a massive coterie of Russian missiles that are nuclear tipped and aimed at New York City and Washington DC around Havana at 1:50 of Friday morning, a few hours after disarmament talks had broken down (see this excellent timeline of the events - in Russian). Before that there had been only a few weeks of minor rhetorical skirmishes. You don't start such an operation without weeks of planning, do you?

now consider that anyone, such as sausalito, who speaks with such certainty about cause and effect, in either the region of the caucasus, or the balkans, is either

1. incredibly uneducated on the history of the regions

2. a flaming partisan prejudiced propagandizer

to conclude that georgia is so clearly the aggressor here, without any acknowledgement of the history of georgia and russia and the caucasus, is obviously blind propaganda

please note: i don't support georgia. fuck georgia. my animosity is towards anyone, such as sausalito, who is extremely gung ho for one side or the other. so when you resist his propaganda, it should not be because you sympathize with the georgians. it is because you detest a flaming partisan, from either side, russian or georgian

the caucasus and the balkans are nothing but staging grounds for thousands of years of ethnic, imperial, religious, tribal, and nationalist backbiting

you are simply another obviously prejudiced backbiter in a long line of backbiters if you can say with resounding certainty that either russia or georgia are obviously the aggressors here

the only thing you should take away from sausalito's words above is simply this: sausalito must love the taste of putin's cock

because sausalito is most certainly smoking imperial russian dick like a heroin addict smokes the pipe

sausalito is a fucking partisan prick

now, again, to avoid the assholes who would accuse me of being a georgian apologist, which i am not: if saulsalito came in here with a story resoundingly on the side of the georgians, you should think THE EXACT SAME THING

avoid the partisan propagandizers, dear gentle k5 reader, avoid their zombified minds like the plague on this earth that they are

nationalism, religious bigotry: these sorts of things will be the death of this all. on display in the caucasus now is nothing more but imperial chest thumping partisan prickery, ON BOTH SIDES, of the highest order

now what do we see? we see a neoimperialist russia invading an outpost of european style liberalism on the black sea, and shutting down oil pipelines that fuel european cars and heat european houses

so naturally, we shall see europe huddling up against the usa again in the near future for protection from the bear waking up from hibernation

for example had bush invaded iraq in 2008 instead of 2003, AFTER the resurgence of russia, rather than before, you would see france, germany, etc., dutifully falling in line and supporting that with troops, rather than vocally distancing themselves. why? because suddenly EUROPE NEEDS THE USA AGAIN

europeans who hate the usa: be prepared to grow beet red in the face and throw food at your television. because what you will see there is merkel offering obama or mccain shoulder rubs, and sarkozy renaming french fries freedom fries: kowtowing to the next american president in ways you dislike, stifling all voices in your country that run antiamerican

europe has to do that again. its 1988 again, in geopolitical terms

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4534358. ece?print=yes&randnum=1218813676860

Once again, the Europeans, and their friends in the pusillanimous wing of the US Left, have demonstrated that, when it come to those postmodern Olympian sports of synchronized self-loathing, team hand-wringing and lightweight posturing, they know how to sweep gold, silver and bronze.

There's a routine now whenever some unspeakable act of aggression is visited upon us or our allies by murderous fanatics or authoritarian regimes. While the enemy takes a victory lap, we compete in a shameful medley relay of apologetics, defeatism and surrender.

The initial reaction is almost always self-blame and an expression of sympathetic explanation for the aggressor's actions. In the Russian case this week, the conventional wisdom is that Moscow was provoked by the hot-headed President Saakashvili of Georgia. It was really all his fault, we are told.

What's more, the argument goes, the US and Europe had already laid the moral framework for Russia's invasion by our own acts of aggression in the past decade. Vladimir Putin was simply following the example of illegal intervention by the US and its allies in Kosovo and Iraq.