A war between a resurgent Russia and tiny Georgia over the microscopic region of South Ossetia should have little impact on another miniature country on the shores of the Mediterranean. And yet, the course of this conflict points in a direction that should trouble those who care about Israel and about the prospects for peace in the Middle East.
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 | 2 comments
Syria denied on Friday that it was considering hosting an advanced Russian missile system, a day after President Bashar Assad held talks with Russian officials about upgrading his country’s military.
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Russian soldiers in Igoeti, Georgia, on Thursday. Analysts fear that Russia could use arms sales to undercut the West.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | One comment
The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia — a move followed swiftly by a new warning from Moscow of a possible military response.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | 3 comments

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to be keeping his options open
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | One comment

MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - Syria is ready to discuss deploying Iskander missile-defense systems on its territory, but it has not received any proposals from Russia, the country’s president told a Russian business daily.
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | Post a comment
Stern American warning: US Secretary of state says NATO would not allow Moscow to ‘draw a new line’ in Europe; Rice also slams renewed Russian bomber patrols off Alaska, says this is not ‘cost free’
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Monday, August 18th, 2008 | 4 comments
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Russia is playing a “very dangerous game” with the U.S. and its allies and warned that NATO would not allow Moscow to win in Georgia, destabilize Europe or draw a new Iron Curtain through it.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008 | 3 comments

Some have said that the Kremlin is unpredictable. I always found the Soviet (Russian) leadership more predictable than the White House.
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