Re: An article by V.Landsbergis

In article <1146269100.603511.322090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "EZ"
<zvinys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Eugene Holman wrote:
In article <1146235048.648047.215990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "EZ"
<zvinys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

An excellent article by prof. V.Landsbergis. It is in Lithuanian, I
think if it were in English, it would cause an extremely heated
discussion here. The article is called:
'didziuju mazumas' or 'the smallness(pettiness?) of the important
ones'.

Enjoy,
Evaldas

The link is as follows:


http://www.veidas.lt/lt/leidinys.nrfull/445200f5ccd98?veidas=ac6587e9e5feda917df177c5d0b5f0fa

Would you be kind enough to summarize the article? Landsbergis is as
intelligent as he is feisty. It would be interesting to see what he has to
say.

Regards,
Eugene Holman

My somewhat tongue-in-cheek interpretation of if it would be as
follows:
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Schroederism. All the
powers of old Europe have missed the chance to enter into a holy
alliance to exorcise this spectre.

He basically says that the last time Russia and Germany did something
behind the backs of the others was before WWII (Ribbentrop-Molotov
pact), this is occuring again (allusion to the pipeline on the bottom
of the Baltic sea). Now Russia is basically bribing high politicians in
the West to turn a blind eye on many things that happen there, cf
return of authoritarism, 'derzhavism' etc. He also underlines the
upcoming G8 summit and how Russia will continue push her own agenda re.
Hamas, Iran etc unobstructed.

Evaldas

Ac^iu.

Interesting points. The eternal dilemma for Europe is the relation between
its two largest and most powerful countries. Luckily, Germany is not
really the Germany of old, since it is so tied up with the EU and its own
problems. Russia, in turn, despite some disturbing internal trends, is
arguably a more prosperous and responsibly run country than it has ever
been before. Germany's present leadership does not seem to be the type
that would pull a fast one of the type done on August 23, 1938. More
importantly, though, Russia has finally learned that inm today's world
money and prosperity, not ideology or military strength, pave the route to
playing a major role on the international stage, so I don't think we have
too much to worry about except, perhaps, the faster than expected erosion
of American power, prestige, and relevance as the world's only
"superpower".

Landsbergis is viscerally highly suspicious of Russia, so I am not
surprised at his views. Russia has the right to have its own agenda, and
being the major country that Hamas and Iran feel will understand their
problems and situation is ma good thing. Somebody's got to do it. And it
keeps their attention focused elsewhere and far from the Baltics,
something that readers of SCB can certainly appreciate.

Regards,
Eugene Holman

Eugene Holman
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