Comments on: The Destroyers

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:17:46 +0000

Yes, the media on both sides were pumping out propaganda, but that Michael Totten piece linked to yesterday clears up a lot of things and makes a hell of a lot more sense than what has been reported by either side.

The information in the Tottem piece is logical and fits what happened, and the inconsistencies in the timing of the Russian response. The Russians had to have been moving before the Georgians did anything to have arrived when they did.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:05:59 +0000

Curiously, I stumbled across this piece on another blog whilst looking for something completely different. ;) Doncha love when that happens? Serendipity... ;) It also relates to your Georgian/Russian blogging of late. Interesting. If true, it explains much, and points to the usual US interference and reliable ability to make things worse. ;) They still call it news

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:52:56 +0000

They are starving the Goose.

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:58:52 +0000

Goose/Golden Egg is all you need to know.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:34:29 +0000

They don’t understand that they are destroying the engine of their wealth and the countries. They are buying corporations in other countries to repeat the process.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:20:09 +0000

I agree with everything you say, pretty much in every particular. What puzzles me is this: why should we expect things to be otherwise, in an era in which the leaders of the allegedly free world use that freedom in the same way the fund managers and CEOs use the capital at their disposal, namely, for their own most cynical personal short-term gain?

In my opinion, the economic event in which we find ourselves is not like recessions or even depressions of the past. We could well be headed for the bottom, in a plunge facilitated by those who have the wealth and power but lack the vision to stave off what could well be their own end as well as ours. It’s a sorry conclusion after such a promising beginning.

“Where there is no vision” (and in this case I’m not speaking of prophecy, only of sound economic forecasting applied long-term to good purposes), the society perishes.