Russian geopolitical guru Bazhanov: "Russia Favors Democrat Obama in US Presidential Race"

[sabra]

http://mnweekly.ru/politics/20080417/55324134.html

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Today there are many crucial international issues where Russia and the U.S. have different points of view - the deployment of the an antiballistic missile shield in the Eastern Europe, NATO enlargement to the East, the status of the disputed region of Kosovo, and others. Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart - whoever it is pending the result of November's presidential election - will have to solve these problems.

The famous Russian geopolitical guru and eminent scholar Evgeny Bazhanov spoke about the future of Russian-American relations, Medvedev's foreign policy and other questions of in an interview with The Moscow News.

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MN: Which candidate for U.S. presidency is preferable to Russia?

BAZHANOV: I think Mr. Obama due to his personal convictions and because of the expectations of those liberal Americans who support him will try to make U.S. foreign policy more reasonable and acceptable to other members of the world community. Mr. Obama will certainly face resistance on the part of the military-industrial complex and other hegemonic segments of the American society. And yet Mr.Obama can succeed at least in the partial reorientation of U.S. strategy abroad.

Mrs. Clinton will not be equally innovative but she is also much more preferable to us than Mr. McCain. This man appreciates nothing but sheer force, which Russia can achieve only by engaging in a new arms race. And we neither want, need nor can afford that.

[NewJeffCT]

1. We already know McCain is the candidate of Al Qaeda

he think they're getting trained in Iran after all... he'll go in there & bomb Iran and Al Qaeda will celebrate and give him high 5s.

[Coexist]

2. how come Russian politicians are allowed to sound intelligent

but American ones are supposed to be likeable.

[DerekJ]

3. The whole bloody world prefers Obama. Canadians prefer Obama 38% to Hillary 30% to McCain 8%.