Venik (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} venik4) wrote, |
True, in the past three week Bush seems to have lost his distaste for setting "artificial deadlines" on the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Russia might have been against the US invasion of Iraq, but the whole game played out to Russia's advantage, at least in short term. Oil prices skyrocketed and Russia made a killing despite the lost Iraqi oil contracts. Seems to me Russia will help the West find good reasons not to rush pulling its troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Something tells me Russia's Georgian blitzkrieg is not even an overture - just the band getting tuned up. Russians have a particular affinity for long-reaching master plans :)
