Let's talk about World War III
By Nikolai Sokov
Dr Nikolai Sokov is senior research associate at James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies at Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is an expert on post-Soviet security politics.
Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess
By Spengler
One irony of the present crisis is that Washington's neo-conservatives, by demanding a tough stance against Russia, may have harmed Israel's security interests more profoundly than any of Israel's detractors in American politics. The neo-conservatives are not as a rule Jewish, but many of them are Jews who have a deep concern for Israel's security - as does this writer. If America turns Russia into a strategic adversary, the probability of Israel's survival will drop by a big notch.
Один из авторов "Эйша Таймс", публикующийся под ником "Шпенглер" опубликовал статью под названием "Американцы играют - в монополию, русские - в шахматы", где указывает на отсутствие у американцев стратегического мышления, своейственного сложным играм. Можно сказать, мол, это мнение одного какого-то "шпенглера" В одном из последних номеров "Файнешнл Таймс" ведущий колумнист, также указывает на то, что у США отсутствует стратегическое мышление. Этого же мнения придерживаются и ведующие военные аналитики США, отнюдь не друзья России
В той же статье, Шпенглер пишет, что основная ошибка русских в том, что они думают, что американцы в действительности не настолько тупы, как кажутся!
F William Engdahl is author of the book A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order and is finishing a book, provisionally titled, The New Cold War: Behind the US Drive for Full Spectrum Dominance. He may be reached via his website, www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
Nikolai Sokov is a senior research associate at CNS. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1981 and subsequently worked at the Institute of US and Canadian Studies and the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. From 1987-92 he worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and later Russia, and participated in START I and START II negotiations as well as in a number of summit and ministerial meetings. Nikolai has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1996) and (the Soviet equivalent of a Ph.D.) Candidate of Historical Sciences degree from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (1986). He has published extensively on international security and arms control. Nikolai is the author of Russian Strategic Modernization: Past and Future (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), co-author and co-editor of the first Russian-language college-level textbook on nuclear nonproliferation (Yadernoe Nerasprostranenie, Vol.I-II, PIR Center, 1st edition 2000, 2nd edition 2002), and several monographs. http://cns.miis.edu/cns/staff/nsokov.htm