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August 27, 2008

The broken spring

Christopher Hitchens on the Prague Spring and the return of Russian imperialism (via the Drink Soaked Trots).

Now, overt Russian imperialism is back, after a very short absence from the scene, and it is no more amiable or benign from the many toxic resentments it acquired during its period of decline and impotence and eclipse. Its propaganda is no longer bureaucratic and collectivist and prosaic; it has been thickened and enriched by patriotic songs, old poems and ballads, and the hymns and incantations of priests. It is now we, sunk in the banalities of democratic discourse, who stammer to find an apt form of words in which to defend and justify ourselves and our once-again menaced friends to the east.

Updating with whatever the MSM thinks is worth mentioning next to the glory of BO:

* United States Coast Guard cutter Dallas is to bypass its scheduled stop at the Russian occupied port of Poti and make steam for Batumi instead.

* Arguably useful talk by Western powers contra the Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, contrary to Security Council resolutions to the, uhh, contrary. Talk is one thing, Condi banging a shoe -- or better yet, one of those boots -- on the table at the UN would be quite another.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 27, 2008 05:57 AM

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