Georgia: A Massive Foreign Policy Meltdown | 47 comments (47 topical, 0 hidden)
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Well, yes. But Russia in 1991 was lawless, and everyone survived in one's own ways. I don't count those things as something outrageous. Bush is different. Stadium scandal was in lawful society with well-known rules of the game.

by Hexer78 on 08/19/2008 09:14:26 AM EST

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This was not about survival (none / 0)
this was about large scale corruption on the back of people starving

survival is about stealing food, not plundering the treasury :)

read a book about it 10 years ago and it made me sick, Putin was nothing but a crook in the 90s

btw Russia had laws at that time and it seems American laws only apply when you're not super rich, if you're rich enough you can get away with anything

by callisto on 08/19/2008 07:54:11 PM EST

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Georgia: A Massive Foreign Policy Meltdown | 47 comments (47 topical, 0 hidden)