<div dir="ltr">Just to read the author's background, one would assume it's going to be more of an insider/realist analysis, not going beyond the limits of allowable debate.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:18 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;">Exactly.<div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 31, 2018, at 9:13 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.<wbr>net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-5351266952973832697Apple-interchange-newline"><div>



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Plenty of useful and interesting facts are presented in ths article, but largely misses the point of the feral antagonism towards Russia and Putin by U.S. politicians, academics and media, namely that Russia is a (potential) global competitor for influence,
 ideas, resources, and power, something which cannot be countenanced (by our corporate dominated militarized state). <br>
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<div>On May 31, 2018, at 5:02 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.<wbr>net</a>> wrote:</div>
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