One wonders what we are getting for our $1 Gazillion, when the Russian Navy can accomplish far more than us with far less:
Following high level complaints about “imperfections” in international law, Russia announced Tuesday that captured Somali pirates “have all died.”Totally Awesome. Why can't they be on our side?
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The official told Russian news agencies the pirates’ boat disappeared from Russian radar about an hour after their release.
“They could not reach the coast and, apparently, have all died,” the official said.
The Russians have just solved the piracy problem, at least as far as their own ships are concerned, with probably a fraction the effort that we and our allies are putting into it.
Did Russia actually admit to killing the pirates? I like this statement, "'We'll have to do what our forefathers did when they met the pirates' until the international community comes up with a legal way of prosecuting them, Dmitry Medvedev said on the day the ship was stormed."
ReplyDeleteIt seems like Russia is exerting itself more on the international stage. For ex, the issue over the American air base near Russia that was important in the Afghanistan war. It does appear that Russia's communist system never really collapsed within its own country nor has it goal of conquering the world through a global bolshevik revolution been a failure. It has achieved this with a water downed version of its system that has permeated the culture of the nations that were once its enemies and this system is in the process of becoming the dominate system of the world. Russia is an interesting topic to study further.
Very interesting. The Cold War isn't over? Cold War II?
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