Russian Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds
Filed under: Americas ~ Europe ~ Russia ~ Venezuela
Yup, that's Hugo Chavez and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov laughing and holding hands like lovers whilst they gaze upon a spectacle of Russian folk dancing as part of Chavez's state visit to Moscow. Do you dare to imagine how Russians would react if Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev (or, for that matter, exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky) had been invited to visit the White House, stopped by New York City on the way, and been photographed cuddling with Mayor Michael Bloomberg under similar circumstances?
How is it possible that Russians can wail to high heaven about America getting involved in Russia's "sphere of influence" in Eastern Europe (installing missile defense systems and inviting Ukraine and Georgia into NATO) and yet have no problem whatsoever providing massive quantities of AK-47s and attack aircraft to Hugo's dicatorship in South America? Hasn't Russia ever heard of the Monroe Doctrine? Does Russia really think it can have its cake and eat it too, even though it's economy is 1/12th the size of America's and it lacks any allies remotely comparable to the NATO group?
To put it simply, this is exactly the same "have your cake and eat it too" behavior we saw from the USSR, the same behavior that brought the USSR to ultimate destruction. And despite that lesson, the victims of the the USSR's brainwashing, like "president" Vladimir Putin, are so filled with anti-American venom that they are prepared to do the whole thing over again, and to have Russia go the same way the USSR went.
How depressing is that? Click the jump for more inspiring Chavez photo ops.
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