Open Letter to Canadian Government on Russian Invasion of Georgia
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compel Russia?16 Aug 2008 07:14
What, specifically, should the Canadian Government do?
Anonymous18 Aug 2008 10:20
I think Laas should go to Moscow and shake Putin by the ear. That's just to get his attention. Then, he can tell Putin to behave himself.

Let's be real. In the short term, there is little that anyone can do. In the long term, Russians will suffer for this because their governing mafia is keeping Russia out of the family of civilized nations and its institutions -- the EU, the WTO, the G8 and etc. Russian energy resources will have to be developed without the grease of Western technology and investment.
With his attack on Georgia, Putin has spurred the movement toward independence from thug-state oil. Also, he just created a huge voting-block in the USA for John McCain.
Anonymous18 Aug 2008 14:51
Putin didn't play his cards right. If he had waited until Obama became became President, then he could have stomped on Georgia with no more reaction than a blast of hot air from the White House and the UN. That's easy to shake off.
Anonymous22 Aug 2008 08:30
I don't see how the current reaction differed from the one you describe coming from Obama . . . .

Furthermore, do you people not have anything better to do than sling mud? The level of debate in here is remarkably juvenile.
sofia19 Aug 2008 14:59
I dont' think Harper, or the Canadian goverment can do much of anything to compel Putin about anything right now. And, the international community was and is intervening. It's not going to go away overnight and Canada is best to stay out of it for the moment and let the big players do their thing.
to Sophia20 Aug 2008 09:18
Thank you -- Maxim -- for not using this as an opportunity to grate on our nerves by kissing Russian butt.
sofia20 Aug 2008 14:38
I'm not Maxim.

And I don't kiss Russian butt.
Maxim.20 Aug 2008 14:39
You have no courtesy whatsoever towards people who write completely independently of Maxim, yet because it suits you, you go right ahead and put them into the same Maxim basket. I have seen quite a good deal of this kind of thing lately, and Sophia has nothing at all to do with me. So pay her the courtesy of figuring out who she is. She is not me!
relax, Maxim/Sofia20 Aug 2008 17:42
If you don't like discourtesy, don't lay down and grovel for it.
Basket Case20 Aug 2008 18:51
The Maxim Basket. It has a nice ring to it.
correction20 Aug 2008 19:44
The text should read, "licks Russian butt".
anonüümne21 Aug 2008 14:03
Maxim,

If you want us to believe that you're not Sofia try not to post 1 minute after "she" does. Seems a bit fishy. :)
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