Monday 12 April 2010

Why Would The Bear Lash Out?

A nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States. No American missiles in Eastern Europe after all. No Western support of any practically meaningful kind for Georgia over South Ossetia. A growing realisation in the West as to who is really on the front line against Islamist terrorism. Why would Russia bother to murder the President of Poland? It was an accident. An accident waiting to happen. But an accident all the same.

3 comments:

  1. Did you ever apply for that job with the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists?

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  2. I think it was probably an April Fool, since the website to which the email address was attached does not exist. But...

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  3. Unfortunately, some people in my office today were musing on the possibility that Russia had the president of Poland killed. Some people just can't seem to come to grips with the fact that the Cold War is over.

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