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CAnnoneer

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Re: Putin throws down the gauntlet ...
« Reply #25 on: October 26, 2007, 08:27:46 PM »
Old thinking. There is more money and power in peace. If anything, the new Chinese elites are extremely practical people.

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Re: Putin throws down the gauntlet ...
« Reply #26 on: October 28, 2007, 12:05:11 AM »
"Old thinking"? Nothing has changed when it comes to the love of money - and power.

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Re: Putin throws down the gauntlet ...
« Reply #27 on: October 28, 2007, 01:00:02 PM »
"Old thinking"? Nothing has changed when it comes to the love of money - and power.

If that's what you believe then you have a lot to learn.

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Re: Putin throws down the gauntlet ...
« Reply #28 on: October 29, 2007, 03:07:29 AM »
It is not a matter of what I believe; you are not going to convert the ruling families in China anymore than you are going to convert the mobs with principles of prosperity through peace. It is as much utopian nonsense as George Bush's "peace and prosperity in every land" for the same reasons.