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The US needs new allies. Old Europe is unreliable and impotent. We would be far better off gathering together the five English speaking countries, India, Brazil, and Poland and agreeing amongst our selves whom we will defend or oppose, and under what conditions. We should choose our allies by who WILL stand up and who CAN stand up. Since the UN is hopeless and NATO is divided, we had better stop giving them decision making power.
O'Sullivan is wrong.
Russia "invaded" because Georgian troops murdered Russian peacekeepers.
Quit parroting the Neocon party line.
Global legalism and soft power have evolved from a combination of 1990's globalization and U.N. dysfunctional multilateralism (John Van Oudenaren) used as appeasement in a global consensus and regional compliance environment. Nation states are afraid to interrupt the equilibrium of the regional stabilities. The U.S. no longer provides global primacy, it is strictly controlled by dominant economic, energy and military power of the regions. Why else would Sarkozy negotiate loopholes in a very succinct demand for Russia to pull completely out and back to the original boundaries before the invasion. Today's headline in the Telegraph.co.uk - Vladimir Putin threatens Europe over energy supply. Putin's regional interest is the disintegration of NATO and it looks like the global legalists are going to let it happen.
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