Sergei Lavrov: Card-Carrying Lunatic

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I'm willing to bet a lot of green money that many of you will not believe this.

Even though I link to it, and even though RIA Novosti is basically a Russian government-controlled wire service, you'll still say this must be some kind of early April Fool's joke.

But it isn't. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (that's him scowling above) declared on Tuesday to state-owned official Kremlin newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper that independence for Kosovo had "already reverberated in many regions" and concluded "you can see what is happening in China's autonomous region of Tibet, how the separatists there are acting, there are grounds to presume that this is not occurring by chance."

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Lavrov is blaming the bloody massacre in Tibet by the Chinese maniacs on the Western decision to recognize Kosovo (which decision Russia just happened to vehemently oppose, but that's just coincidence of course) rather than to force it to remain under the Serbian jackboot, facing mass murder (Serbia being Russia's "little Slavic brother"). How does he know? He has secret reasons, he can't tell you what they are but, trust him, they're pretty convincing.

If only the West hadn't recognized Kosovo, people wouldn't now be losing their lives in Tibet. Sound psychedelic? Sound familiar? Sound like the kind of "thinking" that motivated the USSR right into an early grave? Wonder what they might be smoking in the Kremlin, and how you might get yourself some?

Chinese political scientist Liu Junnin didn't blame Kosovo (it would be quite interesting to conduct a little survey in Tibet and find out how many locals have ever heard of the place). Instead he told the New York Times: "Why did the unrest take off? I think it has something to do with the long-term policy failure of the central authorities. They failed to earn the respect of the people there."

If anyone told rabid Russian nationalist Lavrov that the only reason the Bolshevik revolution occurred was that Russians were watching America, he'd probably bite off that person's head and drink his blood. Yet, when another country is at issue, they are all mindless sheep with no minds or hearts of their own, and their own history means nothing. This is neo-Soviet Russia at its very lowest ebb.

The dominoes Lavrov really should be talking about are the Olympic dominoes. Why shouldn't China think it has a free hand in Tibet to wreck mass murder on the population, if the world has been duped into allowing China to host the Olympic games as if it were a civilized state? And why shouldn't Russia think the same, since it too has been granted an Olympics? In our current poll, our readers are voting overwhelmingly to boycott the China games. The world still has time to back out of the games to be held in 2014 in Sochi. Otherwise, it will allow these cruel and dangerous regimes to use the Olympics as Hitler did, to erect a Potemkin shield of legitimacy and the cost of endless domestic suffering, to the permanent disgrace of the games.

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Lomo says:

It's the age of the tyrants. What's worse is that while the West took a principled stand on Kosovo, Bush bent over for China over human rights. Did you see that 2 days before the Tibet massacre, Bush officially upgraded China from our human rights black list? Great timing. The corrupt republocrats won't dare boycott the Olympics. It's going to have to be a people's movement to get it going in China, and in Russia after that.

vova says:

Well, you take it where you can. I don't blame Lavrov, I blame Condi--she's much closer to home. For example, she had a meeting with "representatives of Russia's opposition and civic socieity." Surprise, surprise, Yavlinksiy--some opposition there--was invited but Kasparov or Kasyanov, to mention just a few, weren't.
She's clueless and always has been.
Bush is weak and held hostage by the the sycophantic media and guilt-ridden white trash, both on the Demonazi side and in his own party.
The good news is that if--God forbid--you have kidney failure, now you can a cheap transplant: Albanians, just like their Chi-com mentors, are known to kidnap and kill Serbs, harvest their organs, and sell them to Western clnics.
So Lavrov does what comes naturally to him.

bear says:

vova, maybe the administration has realized that kasyanov is a kremlin-collaborating stooge, part of the "fake" opposition that the kremlin has created against itself.

i'm telling you it's true.

vova says:

Bear,
I agree on Kasyanov. He was a Kremlin insider and he still is of that blood and flesh. But unlike Kasparov he was a credible opposition candidate, and the crew behind the wall could not forgive his apostasy.
After all, Yeltsin was a communist party boss once.
I am not defending Kasyanov--I am pointing out that Condi is a soft and clueless russophile

Peek-A-Boo says:

Since USA/EU/NATO declared Kosovo independence and used all kind of lies to justify the theft of 15% of somebody else’s territory and since provinces withing sovereign countries such as Serbia are now fair game, nobody who supported the Kosovo independence should have even a wobbly leg to stand on and Tibet could duly be ripped asunder

Fair enough, I guess!?

Along the same lines then, why on earth should Tibet not simply declare its independence from China? If Kosovo is a called a “special case” to justify EU and US support, then Tibet must surely be a no-brainer, super-special case. It was formerly a country, not a province, and it was invaded by China in living memory. It is the very modern icon of human rights abuse and displacement and the entire world largely agrees that China is in the wrong and should give poor Tibet back its autonomy. Should it declare independence from China, one would like to believe that the US and the EU would be forced to step up to the plate and recognise it in a flash. On the moral basis of Kosovo, they should have no choice but to do so.

But they won’t. Tibet will remain occupied.

There is quite simply no way that either of them will risk standing up to China and it is inconceivable — in fact, unthinkable — that they would do so unilaterally without China’s consent. That kind of arrogant disregard can only be dished out to countries too weak to resist, preferably ones that you have bombed into submission and ones against which your voters are still nicely prejudiced and from whom you don’t buy billions of dollars’ worth of toys, computers and dog food.

Bottom line: China is a big pimp on the street and Serbia is not. That means you can gang up on Serbia, garner support in Kosovo and build US military bases in nice strategic positions. It means you can run detention centres like Guantánamo Bay in Kosovo and it means you can kick your old enemy Russia and your new one Iran smugly in the balls. And should Russian diplomacy make inroads with Poland and the Czech Republic when you need to put up your missile defence system at the confluence of Russia and Middle East, what a great alternative your new best buddy Kosovo would make. The clues to otherwise indefensible and incomprehensible behaviour are all in the timing and the agendas playing out behind the scenes.

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