On the path to a new Cold War?

Russia Today
Friday, July 10, 2009

A recent British parliamentary report called “Russia: A New Confrontation?” says a much tougher line needs to be taken with Moscow because of its foreign policy.

It has been a successful week for US-Russia relations, with Presidents Obama and Medvedev looking relaxed together and resetting the way their two countries deal with each other, but not so in the UK.

Hot on the heels of Obama’s Moscow visit, in London a parliamentary report makes for some frosty reading. The House of Commons Defence Committee recommends Britain should take a much tougher line in negotiations with Russia.

The Committee says its starting point for investigations was the view of some commentators that current relations between Russia and the West risk leading to a new Cold War.

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James Arbuthnot, Member of Parliament and committee chairman, thinks that’s unlikely – but he feels there are other difficulties:

“We felt that Russia didn’t pose an immediate threat to the UK, but that it was a genuine threat to some of the countries around its borders. We want to operate in such a way as to improve relations between Russia and the international community, which have taken a bit of a dive in recent years,” he told RT.

The report’s title “Russia: A New Confrontation?” is misleading, says one of its contributors Oksana Antonenko. Although she reckons it is merely coincidence that its release was during the week of Obama’s Moscow visit, Antonenko says the report’s message is consistent with the thrust of US policy towards Russia.

“We need to engage with Russia on the basis of shared interests, and those shared interests really exist, whether it’s Afghanistan or non-proliferation,” Oksana believes, adding, “But I think the report also draws attention to some of the areas where we continue to see things differently, and again, with Obama, those issues have been discussed, but they don’t necessarily represent a barrier for cooperation.”

The report also supports the resurrection of the Russia-NATO Council, suspended briefly after the South Ossetian war in August last year.

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17 Responses to “On the path to a new Cold War?”

Thompson Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Iranian people are now feeling that “cold” war the hardest way.
As russian agents are beating and killing them every day.
poser Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 6:49 am
You mean American agents you fucking idiot. You pull all your information straight from your ass, stupid troll jew lover.

Brandon Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Wow some of the people here amaze me they really do. You guys need to get behind america for better or for worse this is still our country. All you clowns out there touting russia and china’s horn are freakin retarded and need to remember one KEY FACT –THEY ARE BOTH COMMUNIST COUNTRIES–

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

jack Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
look what the people in control of our nation have done to us
look at what they have done to the nation
they have taken our nation from us
that is what
russia is more our people now

Brandon Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Wow exactly what I’m talking about. I like prisonplanet.com but I really do get that pro russian/chinese vibe when I read certain articals here.

What has anyone in this government actually done to you personally? I’m gonna bet not a damn thing, maybe a speeding ticket. You really need to do some soul searching my friend and think if maybe your taking this conspiracy/paranoia thing a little to far. If its making you think that a communist country who hates America and everything we’ve stood for over the last 50 years is your people, you are seriously deluded.

**Conspiracy Theory** Maybe Alex Jones and Prisonplanet.com are actually communist spies sent here to spread hate and discontent in America? Sounds possible to me.

poser Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Brandon you are proof Americans are fucking retards. Russia is not communist moron, matter of fact they are more Capitalistic than America is right now.

Brandon Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 1:55 am
No your proof how uninformed most people actually are on prisonplanet.com. Russia may not be officially communist you are correct in this statement. However, who do you think runs russia? If you said Vladimir Putin and his buddy Medvedev your right, and both of these guys are EX-KGB and so is everyone else in power in russia. So while not officially communist there still being run by communists that hate the West.
Nick Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Some of the best rock music in the west was composed during the 1st Cald War,may be 2nd cold war will boost musicians imagination again – and don’t forget spy movies too!
They really need something to save them from mediocrity.
And poor brits could sell Beatles to the western world next zillion times – as the genuine ‘cold war band’ !

truth911 Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
good one never thought of of that but absolutely right
Jones Henry Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Cold War 2 started when Berlin wall fell down 20-years ago. Ends by 2012

Nick Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Well,what kind of clock do you use to be so sure? In your universe it seems no time left for the new punk-rock revolution and desperate brits have to proclaim Cold War Three immediately after second one to sell Beatles to US flag waving bible-loving republicans as well as to same-sex marriage praising democrats for the gazillions time around
truth911 Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
you mean they dont want to do what all the rest of you useless criminal bastards want them to do . to frickin bad .yeah russia . and you also mean by two countries deal with each other dont you mean bribe and threaten each other spin spin spin we know all about it
kim Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
freaks like kissinger and that Z guy really do pine for the good old days when it was them vs russia
what a bore
our nation is rotting from within, time to move on
russia is rotting from within, move on
time for us to realize it is time to stop playing games, make nice, and be friends
the endless wars and games have worn our societies to the nub, give the people a break or your nations will end as you know them

Artyom Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Okay, great believe that we are rotting within. Please do, so everyone would leave us alone here. Thank you. Now let me go enjoy my weekend in traffic going to one of the largest shopping malls in Europe to watch a movie… Rotting hahaha…

Nick Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Don’t forget about foreign sex slaves while spendig your cash
on useless trash. Your girl friend might land there sometime soon .

Nick Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 12:07 am
From my point of view EVERY country is rotting from within,but some of them do it
slow because of good health care system which make people goin’ and in return the
healthy people keep good morals and raise healthy children. America lost this ability
when slimy Clinton came to power and Russia (as part Of USSR then) when Gorby-traitor arrived earlier with his poisonous ‘reforms’.
I mean old Capitalist Democratic America is dead as well as old Soviet Communist Russia
and what we see there are two different countries with some dear old memories in the heads of their citizens.
And if you didn’t notice let me remind you of two significant changes – Russia very qucikly
got involved in global capitalism and money makin’ while America very swiftly killed it’s domestic social care system. You need examples – look at poor California,the whole Golden state is on th verge of buncrupcy.
live sex Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 2:58 am
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