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  LIBERTAS at 03:18 PM JST - 17th August

  It's always amazing that, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, those who simply cannot bear to think that they might be wrong, and that their home country may be wrong, and that their national and foreign policy might be wrong, always shoot the messenger. The ultimate geopolitical fantasy is America's continued place of prominence and influence in a multi-polar world. It really is a shock to the system to suddenly have to face up to the facts that pretty much everything you know about what you call "reality" has been a pack of lies, damn lies and fabricated statistics.

  A colossal geopolitical shift was declared, after the fact, last week. Denial will only make it worse. Endless parroting of “Russian forces must leave Georgia now” shows that denial is deeply entrenched indeed. Many progressive thinkers beileve, as Prabda so eloquently put it, that "she is one evil piece of work, as many of us suspected all along." It's unlikely that the freedom or the gonads to print such a home truth exists in the US main stream media. Whose fantasy freedom?

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  undecidedbout08 at 03:48 PM JST - 17th August

  There's Pravda, and there's the BBC:

  "Ukraine has said it is ready to make its missile early warning systems available to European nations following Russia's conflict with Georgia.

  [...]

  'Unprecedented situation'

  In a statement, Ukraine's foreign ministry said that because the country was no longer party to the 1992 agreement with Russia on the use of its radar stations, it could now "launch active co-operation with European nations".

  "Only a collective security system will provide the highest international guarantees... that could prevent any actions like those which occurred in... South Ossetia" - - -President Viktor Yushchenko [the other foe Czar Vlad Putin had poisoned]

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  "BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says the decision is evidence Ukraine is now more desperate to embrace the West as its fear of Russia intensifies and Moscow seemingly becomes more determined to prevent any neighbouring states from joining Nato."

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/7566070.stm

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  rajakumar at 05:42 PM JST - 17th August

  Abkhazia separatist actions making ceasefire deals more complicated.

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  SuperLib at 10:53 PM JST - 17th August

  Considering 90% of what both governments say is disproved 48 hours later, I'll have to withhold judgment on this.

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