Georgia
Robin Ramsay writes:
The real point about the Georgia thing is seeing the US and Russian military-industrial complexes getting back on the road - contracts, careers back on track. Just for a minute there, peace almost broke out! In this country, where politics has yet to be completely corrupted by money, it is difficult for people to grasp that US foreign policy exists mostly to enrich the military-industrial complex. As in: why have Poland and Georgia in NATO, given the geo-political damage this will do to relations between Russia and the rest of Europe? There will be a clause in the contracts somewhere which forces them to buy US weapons systems. That’s the price of entry. Not much of a picnic, eh . . .
The above is an abbreviated version of Lobster editor Robin Ramsay’s political blog, 18 August 2008, sited on Picnic’s website.
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