Russia to temporarily withdraw from Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Heresson
But I agree.

Just to clarify, I didn't mean you with agreeing/disagreeing, but your glorious leaders (please elect somebody else next time, will ya? ).

It's ok to disagree with something and to have your own opinion. But it is definitely bad taste to threaten with a veto (the same goes to the Brits, btw) and to proclaim "square root or death". It is not that you wouldn't get allies if you had done it the usual way by going around and trying to convince others. All the medium and small states are potential allies.

But to throw a fit four weeks before the summit and to threaten a veto about something that has been signed by all countries (including Poland!) a few years ago and even playing the Hitler card at an EU summit is definitely not making Poland friends - and I'm by far not talking about Germany alone here.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
(please elect somebody else next time, will ya? ).

Evil Krauts meddling into Polish internal affairs again

[Lancer]

What's the name of that stuffy lady that wrote the book on ediquet?

[Harovan]

Originally posted by BeBro
Evil Krauts meddling into Polish internal affairs again

Politics sucks.

I'd much rather make Kartoffelsalat.

[Lancer]

A cart of salad?

[Harovan]

Nah, a salad of potatoes (pure pun, the Kaczynski brothers were called "Polands new potatoes" by a German newspaper, much to their outrage).

Kartoffelsalat mit Kraut!

[Serb]

Originally posted by Heresson


This article is indeed much like defence of Russia here in this forum: idiotic.

No, your rants here are idiotic. They don't deserve a minute of my time.

To sum up: mr Cohen is a typical US-loathing, Russia-ass-licking leftie. He is a profesor of russian studies, and it is typical for such kind of specialists - arabists too - to care more about Russian/Arab/whatever feelings than his own culture's.

To sum up: mr Heresson is a typical Russia-loathing, USA-ass-licking moron. He is Polish and it is typical for such lackeys to care more about American/their master feelings than his own culture's.

He looks on the world through Russia.

You look on the world through prism of anti-Russian hatred.

For him, SU is "Soviet Russia".

Not only for him. Soviet Russia was just another name of the Soviet Union.

Iran is still Russia's "neighbour" for mr Cohen. I do not think low of his knowledge of geography.

FYI, professor the staus of the Caspian Sea is still not determinated and frontiers are not marked. The last treaty about frontiers was signed in 1940 between USSR and Iran. I believe, currently it's more or less correct to cosider all five Caspian nations as neighbours.




p.s. Welcome to my ignore list Heresson. You are not my buddy anymore.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Nah, a salad of potatoes (pure pun, the Kaczynski brothers were called "Polands new potatoes" by a German newspaper, much to their outrage).

Kartoffelsalat mit Kraut!

What a strange insult. I wonder that they bothered to be outraged.

[DinoDoc]

He is Polish and it is typical for such lackeys to care more about American/their master feelings than his own culture's.

Since when is Russia part of Polish culture as anything other than a shameful period of history?

[Serb]

Since when Polish culture is anything, but a shame?

[Serb]

Have a nice day.

[Heresson]

Russia is on the north of Kaspian Sea. Iran is at the very south. I can't imagine how they could share a border there.
Rest of the comments is silly and hardly worth replying.

[Patroklos]

All the countries on the Pacific rim are neighbors!

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Serb
Since when Polish culture is anything, but a shame?

since russian culture

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Heresson
Russia is on the north of Kaspian Sea. Iran is at the very south. I can't imagine how they could share a border there.
Rest of the comments is silly and hardly worth replying.

Neighbor has often the meaning of "close by", not necessarily sharing a common border. I remember Rumsfeld calling Iran a neighbor of the EU in an interview in the beginning of the current negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program. Anyone with a slight hint of goodwill understands, that he didn't want to imply that Iran shares a border with the EU, he just meant that Iran is closer to the EU than, say, to the US, and invited the Europeans to play a bigger role in the negotiations.

Oh, and the Caspian sea is shrinking dramatically. Eventually water borders there could become land borders.