A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. In this case, Nadler is absolutely right, and Spengler of the Asia Times backs him up:

Israel's involvement with the Georgian cause against Russia (including the prominent role of Israeli advisors in the ill-fated Georgian army) may be one of the stupidest things the Jewish state has done since its founding. Russia appears to view Israeli missile defense as part of the overall American effort to encircle Russia with anti-missile systems in Poland, the Czech Republic, and so forth, and may retaliate by selling sophisticated anti-missile and anti-aircraft systems to Syria and Iran.

Sharansky has every right to detest Vladimir Putin, given his suffering at the hands of Soviet state security, but he is apocalyptically wrong to complain that the United States has not done enough to strengthen Georgia, Lithuania and Ukraine against Russia. Russia is in a position to do enormous harm to Israel if it chooses to ally itself with Israel's enemies, and well may do so if it perceives that Israel has joined the United States in placing pressure on its borders. That, pardon the expression, could lead to a disaster of Biblical proportions.

How come Russia blog has not commented on the BBC revelations grudgingly that Georgian forces are suspected of committing war crimes in South Ossetia (which is a no brainier)?

At least someone has brains in the US.

Soviet apparatus as I stated before was an entire Jewish creation from the beginning.

Can anyone name a prominent ethnic Russian Communist philosopher, activist prior to 1917?

I will remind you that Lenin was a quarter Jewish, married to a Jewish wife and spoke Yiddish at home and suspected to be alligned with freemasonry.

As far as Sharansky goes his harsh treatment whilst in the Gulag is a creation of his tribe and operated and ran by them.

Belive as they say= russia should nuke the rest of the world and then biochemically take over the rest
in one moment in time

James,
Enough with the anti-Semitic, LaRouchite rantings. Nadler is right, Israel is more important to America than Georgia. Russia needs some quid pro quo if we're going to stop Iran from nuking Israel and turning much of the Middle East into a radioactive waste with the oil fields completely fenced off and under new Chinese management.

Iran is facing either a Soviet style collapse or war. Once the Politburo picked Gorbachev, the option of war was pretty much foreclosed for the Soviets, and they collapsed, in spite of hard liners attempt to create a Chinese-style economic revival with an authoritarian state intact. Didn't happen.

Iran, meanwhile, at least with its present regime, has no reason for existing other than Islamic Revolution. If the Revolution dies than the regime will eventually fall. As Spengler writes, you know a country is beaten when they start selling off their women, as the Iranian mafia is rumored to be doing in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc. Iran couldn't supply the basics to its people when oil was at $145 due to kleptocracy (kind of like early 90s Russia, all the oil money getting whisked out of the country instead of staying inside to the benefit of the population). How can the Islamic regime stay in power if oil drops to $45 a barrel?

Iran's attempt to team up with Venezuela to create a huge speculative bubble in oil prices (I don't think it was the Russians) failed, as all attempts to drive up prices to artificially insane levels must do in any global market. Not even the OPEC cartel could save the Iranians and Chavistas from their greed and stupidity, nor were the Kuwaitis, Saudis and UAEs willing to do it since they depend on U.S. protection from their Shia minorities.

@Steve J. Nelson

Lyndon LaRouche is not an anti-semite. He has plenty of Jews in his organisation and when he mentions senior worms like George Soros or the Rothschild’s he never refers to them as Jews.

I mentioned the Jewish origins of Communism because that is used as reference constantly against Russia.
And as I point out it is an undeniable fact communism was Jewish.
That the evil Russian mass murderers were in fact Jewish.

Any reasonable analysis is thrown out the window and this is used as a pretext.

The west can sponsor terrorism in Russia that they have done since 92 training Chechen militants in Turkey and Bosnia, publish comical cartoon of the Beslan school massacre in the LA Times (theme of dumb Russian bear) and support the dictator of Georgia's blitz on South Ossetia by rewarding him with billions of dollars worth of more weapons and welcomed with open arms by European and US leaders.

And what about Obamas foreign policy advisor Zbig Brezinski advocating the destruction of Russia as laid out in his 97 book The Grand Chessboard.

One of the most common phrases that is used is "soviet policy was just a continuation of Russia imperial policy". No it is not and negates the fact that other imperial powers were vying for land and territory.

Most of the stories if you research and evaluate them in the western press are either bogus or exaggerated

During the recent Georgia crisis Jewish Neocon’s were advocating a nuclear first strike holocaust against Russia.

The truth is Europeans and Americans don’t like Russia so the better Russians realise this and make alliances with Asian and Latin American countries the better.

I was happy to see the USSR leave Eastern Europe, much less so to see it fall apart. It gave me bad memories of the collapse of the Austro Hungarian Empire and the hell that followed. If that's what Putin meant when he spoke of the "geopolitical tragedy" of the USSR's demise then I agree with him.

Speaking as a purely selfish American, the resurgence of Russia and the probable recovery of much of its former territories need not be such a bad thing. A good firm hand on the trouble making regions, peace and quiet around the energy reserves and a reliable supplier that isn't out to finance world islam, a powerful country that isn't too angelic to defend its own interests, these could be positives for the USA. Right now we have enough problems without dealing with ColdWar2.0.

But these things may well be wishful thinking. It may be that the Russian leaders are too bent on revenge and the Americans too unimaginative to make the grand bargain.

"If that's what Putin meant when he spoke of the "geopolitical tragedy" of the USSR's demise then I agree with him"

This statement was taken out of context by the western media and given a typical anti-Russian spin.

What Putin and Medvedev has also mentioned since the Georgian crisis is that since the collapse of the USSR 25 million ethnic Russians are outside of Russia in countries that are pretty hostile towards Russians since the collapse of the USSR much like Germans after WW1 this is what he meant by geo-political disaster.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90’s memos and statements by senior US political figures like Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz have made it public policy not to have a strong Russia that can challenge US hegemony.
George Soros and Jeffery Sacks economic shock therapy which he personally made millions of dollars from was designed to destroy the Russian economy.

It is NATO and the US that has been expanding there borders towards Russia, supporting and training Islamic terrorism inside it’s own borders and in Central Asia and hyping up a supposed threat.

Moscow’s primary concern is not the establishment of its former Russian empire but safety of its citizens which they probably rightly feel will be attacks to illicit a response from Russia case in point the recent Georgia conflict http://antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=13294.

Do you know who Obama’s senior foreign policy advisor is?
He is the modern day equivalent of Jacob Schiff and we know how that turned out.

As the price of oil plummets, the Bear may go back over the mountain. If not, the Bear will eat Obama.

@john

Another retarded statement by a Euro/US Bolshevik facist.