The failed summit between Bush and Putin can haunt the world for years to come
Staff Reporter
Mar. 1, 2005

Putin heard a solid lecture on democracy from Bush last week. Putin came out and said “Russia’s path to democracy cannot be reversed.” Then in a two day time frame Russia sold nuclear reactors to Iran and finalized sophisticated missiles deal with the Baathist regime of Syria.

What does that tell you? Well it is simple. Russians could not be rude with Bush. They just showed their response through their action in Syria and Iran.

Russians are fed up of hearing lectures from America on democracy. Russian view is that American two party democracy is not far from oligarchy. You have to be connected to “Access” the “System” and be rich or from a rich family to be able to run for election. Otherwise you become another “Nader”. Also, it is virtually impossible to form a third party that can really counter the Democrats or Republicans. Russians fell short from telling Bush these but that is exactly how they think.

Putin has drawn a line on the sand. He responded to American actions in Georgia, Ukraine and other areas of Russian strategic interest by deciding to arm America’s enemies – China, Iran and Syria. Russians have a huge arms industry. After oil, that industry can fetch them hard-money from countries like China and Iran who are also rich because of housing American Manufacturing base and oil (for Iran).

The Sino-Russian relations is booming. Russian strategy is to play the worst kind of cold-war politics with the Americans by distributing the sophisticated Arm for cash deal to countries that oppose America. The approach is almost close to blackmailing Bush. America at this stage needs to decide either to continue to weaken Russian regime and live with Russia’s immediate actions in arming China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela and so on. The other alternative is to include Russia in the mainstream components of the world.

The problem with Russia’s distributing sophisticated Arms to less than desirable elements is that these arms can get into the hands of the terrorists, jihadists and extremists in the long run. How do you guarantee that Hizbullah, Hamas, Pakistan’s covert Islamic militants, Bangladeshi Jihadists or the Phillipine extremists will not get hold of these arms?

It is desirable that Bush talks straight to Putin and solve this problem for the world.

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