What they didn’t say at Kennebunkport
Spengler, one of the Chief’s favorite writers has this over at Asia Times.
Nothing like the imagined dialogue below will have occurred at the Bush family compound on the Maine sea coast during President Vladimir Putin’s July 1 retreat with US President George W Bush.
Putin, I expect, will have done his best to humor his American counterpart and keep him off his guard. Bush is prepared neither intellectually nor psychologically to understand what a Russian leader must do, and a practical man like Putin would not waste
words explaining the unexplainable to the uncomprehending. Putin’s unenviable task is to persuade Bush of his good intentions, while gaining maneuvering room to take measures that the US will regard as hostile. I have no idea how he tried to bring this off in Kennebunkport.But it is sobering to imagine how the conversation might have gone if Putin had told Bush the unvarnished truth.
The dialog follows. It’s well worth reading, and adds a very interesting perspective to the US-Russia situation. It’s semi-lengthy, and doesn’t lend itself well to fragmentary quotation, so go check it out – it makes far too much sense to ignore!
Hey … one heck of a read.
Of course Putin problems all over the press here in UK cause Brits deported some diplomats.
Putin vows revenge as Britain expels diplomats
http://tinyurl.com/2bcu6t
Caught this at BMBEW btw.
Jorge Bush kept saying I don’t understand which is probably what would happen if it really happened. He doesn’t even understand his own voting base. He cannot qualify as a Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative. He is a “compassionate conservative” so be on the lookout for others meeting that description.