tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post23300921913787258..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: How isolated is Russia?David Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-89396669994424010732014-04-17T10:13:00.062+02:002014-04-17T10:13:00.062+02:00Gotta hand it to Anonymous for the dumbest comment...Gotta hand it to Anonymous for the dumbest comment of the year.... "China doesn't count"... breathtaking. Congratulations!David Seaton's Newslinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-54675199778985490192014-04-09T04:17:38.610+02:002014-04-09T04:17:38.610+02:00China doesn't count. Xinhua is the Party'...China doesn't count. Xinhua is the Party's sock puppet. India is just weird, still pining for the Soviets as a way to bash the imperialists. Oh, and Putin's also got Cuba, Garglestan and Venezuela on his side. A real winning hand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-87473893236290755412014-03-22T15:16:24.327+01:002014-03-22T15:16:24.327+01:00Not very isolated, at all. Beyond lip-service resp...Not very isolated, at all. Beyond lip-service respect that diplomacy requires toward fading, yet real power that the US and its European allies still represent, who really listens to Obama, Kerry, the US congress or the EU? Western authorities behave like inhabitants of a gated community isolated from the concerns of the masses around them and ignoring the inconvenient reality of things evolving outside the walls. It recalls the aristocrats of the BBC soap opera "Downton Abbey" not noticing that the world is moving on without them and the way things used to be.stuntednoreply@blogger.com