re: #515 albusteve

it’s just less than blackmail…why is Russia so stressed about it?…we planning on a casual exchange soon?…it’s political maneuvering, posturing and let the donks get all bunchie about it…who cares…or pass the damned thing and again so what?…this deal doesn’t make anybody safer at all…these guys need something else to do, go weed the garden

It sounds good on paper but Russia remain a nationalist state now being controlled by the Russian mafia, Putin and the Russian Orthodox church. They have more to gain from maintaining their relationship with Ahmadinejad then they do by signing a piece of paper. We don’t have to look no further than their alliance with the Serbians in the 90s and their treatment of Georgia. Had Putin been out of the picture I would feel more optimistic.