Anyone who considers the British Independent to be a reliable source should have his head examined. But the story is repeated by several other sources. Of course, an ex-chief economic adviser of Putin can't be considered a cast iron witness, but still:
After annexing Crimea and with troops massed on the border of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will not stop trying to expand Russia until he has “conquered” Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland, one of his closest former advisers has said.Sounds bleak for Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
According to Andrej Illarionov, the President’s chief economic adviser from 2000 to 2005, Mr Putin seeks to create “historical justice” with a return to the days of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and the Soviet Union under Stalin.
Speaking to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Mr Illarionov warned that Russia will argue that the granting of independence to Finland in 1917 was an act of “treason against national interests”.
Sounds bleak all around, actually.
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If I recall correctly, Dagbladet is probably the Indy's Swedish counterpart, at least when it comes to publishing articles that demonize Israel.
I have not listened to the proceedings but understand that Dershowitz recently ate J-Streeter Jeremy Ben Ami for breakfast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AReBKzAVaNw
Also worth reading WRT the UN:
http://moynihansmoment.wordpress.com/
Yep. But Russian sources confirmed. Of course, as I mentioned, the man is no longer close to Putin, so all this could be so much hot air. But maybe not...
The man has a grudge against Vlad no doubt, but I also don't doubt for a minute that Vlad doesn't covet even more territory, Sweden and Alaska included. The question is how far he's willing to go. Listening to CBC Radio's national call in program yesterday about Ukraine/Crimea and what Canada should do, it was interesting to hear a caller who identified himself as of part Russian / Ukrainian heritage, cite Putin's track record with Chechniya and Georgia and say that Putin is doing what he just did as much to show the Russian public who's the boss and not just former SSRs who opted out of the "Federation". And forgive me if I posted this on FB as well.
Ben Ami is a political clown with pretense to a serious status in US Jewish community. I hope he will never get there.
And thanks for the links.
Oh, sure the last Putins' move (Crimea) was targeting the internal audience. I guess he may want to repeat this definite success, timing it according to his polls. May happen sooner than later, but who knows.
Oh, take Finland, please. Let's liven things up a bit. Really ruin Wormtongue's and Lurch's day.
2009 is hardly recently.
If I knew that this will improve Nokia phones, I will be all for it.
ah, but do the Finns want any part of historical Russian justice? I suspect that the folks in Helsinki may have other ideas.
They do, they do. They just don't know about it, but Putin has a way of explaining stuff. It will come to them.
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