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Freeze in Polish-Russian relations as oil runs dry

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By Eva Krafczyk Jan 10, 2007, 11:44 GMT

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Derek NaleckiJan 10th, 2007 - 20:01:19

There is hardly any need for Poland's government, 'conservative nationalist' or any other hue to be playing 'the anti-Russian card'. 'Russia' is an immature geopolitical creation governed pretty permanently by an string of unsavoury, murderous and criminal governments; and the 'card' plays itself just fine in the eyes of all peoples who have any real experience in dealing with Muscovy's bastard descendant polities over the last few hundred years.
As opposed to the romantic pretensions that play themselves in the imaginations of Germans, French and other Western European half-wits, when the subject of 'Russia' comes up.
In the truly Orwelian sense, nothing about 'Russia' is what it presents; starting with the name which the village strongmen of Muscovy appropriated for themselves, when the real Kievan based Russia (Rus) was destroyed by Mongol invasion and Lithuanian (Polish) move into the power vacuum created by this invasion; 'russian' 'friendship' is invariably an exercise in Mafia-like control and expolitation of its partners; co-operation with Muscovy, in economic or any other area, is ultimately contradiction in terms.
Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and other recipients of Muscovy's 'friendship' will not be secure until they end all forms of dependence on anything coming from their East. Any relationships with Muscovy should be operating exclusively on the assumption that it may be necessary for it to be cancelled on a moment's notice, to forestall Muscovite blackmail.

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