Biegun was one of the other campaign staffers, that spoke out publicly in her favor, after all the lies that were told in the immediate aftermath of the campaign. Yes, he screwed up in that call from those Canadian pranksters.
In retrospect, we fell for the biggest joke in the world, and it’s not funny, Frankly I don’t think the Governor needed much convincing about
Russia’s intentions, MIG’s have been buzzing the former Russian territory on an increasing basis, Wassila (formerly Vassily as in the suburb of St. Petersburg) and Sitka are reminders of that, as is the Kodiak launch site and the BMD radar at Ketchikan.

Saakashvilli, although Western educated, is naturally worried how Abkhasia and Ossetia were used twice in the last two hundred years, 1799 and 1921, as pretext to annex Georgian independence, so there probably was a lobbying effort, which I assume the BTKpipelines might have a role in, Russia has not been an ally in these endeavors despite all the Bush
administration gave in the last 7-8 years. They supported the Chechen massacre, for that’s what you call Aldy and Grozny & Stare Atagi were. In return they helped build up the Iranian nuclear problem, notably at the Bushehr plant.

Well considering that he and Biegun spoke out in the first week of the election, against the nameless slanders, yes no one put their names to them; curious no. I name Megham McCain and Nicole Wallace, because they were in her entourage, and yet chose not to defend her, or even comment. We know that at least on of the socalled sources, Mr. Eisenstadt, was a internet prankster named Gorlin. Now why the defense of the Gazprom/siloviki crow. The Medveyev/Putins and the likes of Gen. Shamanov, and Nagovitsyn, and Zhilikov

Other than Meghan McCain, I have no idea who you are talking about “narciso”! Who is Biegun? What connection does he have with Scheunemann? What is Scheunemann’s current occupation now that he is no longer running the McCain campaign into the ground trying to play the Russia-bashing card for his own personal enrichment? Why has he never answered questions about his role lobbying his boss McCain on behalf of his real boss Saakashvili? Why can’t you Zigfeld sock puppets ever spell and write complete sentences?

Is Steve Levine a fraud, was the late Anna Politskayava, or the poisoned ex SVR man, those were all accidents.

Huh? What about Steve Levine? LeVine is a reporter for BusinessWeek. And the poisoned Litvinenko, lest you forget, worked for Boris Berezovsky. That’s the Godfather of the Kremlin Boris Berezovsky, who probably had a hand in the killing of Paul Klebnikov too — a Russian journalist who was personally friendly with Putin and whose family Putin visited after his death. You can read about that on my blog.

How, for example, can anyone possibly believe the West can address Iranian nuclear technology without addressing Russia? To continue to follow that policy is essentially just an admission of failure and impotence. And both the Russians and Iranians (to say nothing of the Israelis) know it.

Readers of Pajamas and other sites have got to stop being distracted by the apparent internal collapse of the pillars of society within Russia which we, outside of Russia, take as measures of strength and health. Russia is not Europe; Russia is Asia. Strength and health are measured differently there. Russia is not weak. And Russia is not a democracy of any kind. And Russia is behind all these crises. So why should the Republican party – particularly when the Russians themselves are no longer overt devotees of the “brotherhood of man” – not make containment of Russia their policy? Russia is the arch-foe, because that’s what the Russian government is doing. Period.

kabud is a pretty old sock-puppet of the “Kim Zigfeld” team. Don’t expect any kind of rational or sensible argument from him.

It’s kind of funny how some people – fewer and fewer by the day – still think Zigfeld is legitimate.

Fortunately, the Larussophobe shtick is getting tired, and the blog is losing ground. Most people who read it by now are probably only folks who actually don’t like LR at all, but go there just for the laugh (such as I).

One thing the Zigfeld team should worry about is that in the long run, no secrets can be kept. Too many people are involved in the project, and sooner or later they will trip up. Probably within the next 24 months or so.

Dunnigan has a very good section on the topic in “How to make War”

Things have gotten worse, not better during Putin’s reign. The Russian military is a joke. Russia is running a bluff based off the once formidable Red Army.
The first time the run up against an American President with some balls, they will get slapped down and their entire social structure will implode.
If Bush had ordered the Air Force to close the tunnel into Georgia, the Russian invasion would have been cut off at the knees. Putin would not be in power today. Putin wasn’t worried because he looked into Bush’s eyes and saw a bully and a coward. It was a perfect opportunity to bring regime change to Russia for the cost of a JDAM or three.
There is going to be a massive war in the next decade or two. If we start it, we can win without to much trouble.
The sooner we start, the sooner it is over and the smaller the butchers bill.

“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
- Niccolò Machiavelli

“The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince