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5 Apr, 2014

The Vineyard of the Saker: A new Cold War has begun – let us embrace it with relief!

Short of waging war on Russia as it did in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Libya or Syria – the USA has pretty “maxed out” its anti-Russian policies, and the fact is they don’t amount to much.

So what do you call a little bit of something bad, but not enough to really hurt you. Nietzsche would call it a power boost. Modern medicine calls it an immunization. The choice of words does not matter, only the actual phenomenon does: the US and EU did inflict a considerable amount of pain on Russia, but not enough to break it and, as a direct consequence of that, Russia has received a powerful “anti-AngloZionist immunization” which will make it far stronger than it was.

And that is good news for everybody.

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