Zitat von Jorad

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Ich muss trotz allem mal nachfragen: wie sollte die NATO denn "Krallen zeigen"?

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Zitat von Charles Krauthammer

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That's it. No dissolution of the G-8 (group of industrial democracies). No blocking of Russian entry to the World Trade Organization. No suspension of participation in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics (15 miles from the Georgian border). No statement of support for the Saakashvili government.

Remember: At issue is not military action, only measures -- painless for the West -- that would significantly affect Russia. In Soviet days, Russia didn't care because it was at the center of a self-enclosed autarkic system that included 15 Soviet republics, all of Eastern Europe and a collection of overseas colonies. With these all gone, post-Soviet Russia is infinitely more dependent on the international system. It has political/economic pressure points. Yet with Georgia occupied, its infrastructure stripped and its capital under siege, NATO pushed not one of them.

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Zitat von Jorad

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(Ich bin kein Fan von uneingeschränkter Solidarisierung - das ist 1914 schonmal böse ausgegangen. Sry für den Vergleich ;))

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