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Daryl Northrop commented on the blog post Russia Hints at Giving Up on Syria
It’s pretty clear that Russia will act in Russia’s best interests, which are:
1. Economic – as long as a country can continue to pay for arms shipments, the Russians are very unlikely to support dramatic regime change of any kind, for any reason.
2. Power balance – Russia fears containment and isolation and will always use whatever tools of statecraft it can to maintain good relations and influence with middle eastern nations.
Look for Russia to strengthen ties with Syria’s neighbors if and when Assad falls. I’m sure Lebanon might be willing to host a Russian naval base, and Iraq and Iran are always in need of Russian military hardware, especially Iraq, which has no fixed wing air force to speak of.
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Daryl Northrop wrote a new diary post: Better Understanding Through Tactical Ignorance
What are the consequences of policies enacted by political representatives? This is the question the we all strive to understand, and that politicians struggle to communicate. And of course, the communications are aimed at either portraying a policy as a panacea, or as the worst idea that have ever been presented. So how do [...]
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Daryl Northrop commented on the diary post Ain’t No Criminals on Wall Street by masaccio.
The lack of prosecutions on Wall Street, and most everywhere else, is a prime example of agency capture. The agencies that are supposed to monitor and regulate financial firms become the firms lapdogs – looking the other way when rules are bent or broken. Of course, this is a symptom of the more serious disease [...]
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