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He longs for the old days of the former communist USSR when the Kremlin was one of several world powers.  He can barely keep Russia together and safe from the Russian Maffia, crime and alcoholism.  Good try.

Communism is evil

I think he has a valid arguement. With radical islam as it is today, the world under one governemnt authority will never work. Bush and the Congress should get out of the UN now. The UN is more organizationally challenged than the US government......and thats saying something.

Diogenes
The UN is not a world admin. We cannot expect world admin type behavior from it or that would be creepy. The UN is an institution. Somehow that’s different. I do agree though - the UN makes some things more difficult… like bombing in Bosnia-Kosovo. It does provide a nice venue for everyone to get together and bitch though. In its weakness it also provides a place for unique alliances to occur (needed if the UN is weakened), something which helps shake up things and preserve the sovereign states system (by recognizing sovereignty, et cet).

Chief
Do you think the US should be the one, unopposed unipolar power in the world? Would it be desirable? Long-lived? I personally think our power exists only in consort with other medium-large fairly industrial states.

This is related to my post a few weeks back because now we are seeing a contrived, multi-party balance of power on the world scale - and Putin seeking to entrench it. I am interested to see how countries like France and Russia deal with the increased pressure on Iran.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Of course with Putin as the other superpower. Grand Czar Vlademir, Emperor of All Asia.

I think the Chinese will have somewhat to say on that.

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2H9

Source: Xinhua

Hmmmmmmmmm.

Yea, I saw this in my bloglines feed last night. Xinhua is a generally good source.

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A good source in what they choose to cover. I haven’t seen any stories, funny enough, on the virtues of chinese wooden shoes. Maybe next week. I don’t think they have covered the ‘Google capitulates to commie censors’ story either.

Actually, they had several articles and op-ed pieces on that very subject. The archives of their english trans is a bit spotty.

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