Russia: US in no position to advise

[North Pole Resident]

The Russian president is right - the USA must mind its own business and should not stick its nose into every hole it can find.....

Thu, 03 Jul 2008

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev

Moscow scoffs at a US call on the G8 to exclude Russia for its different democratic values from those of the group's other seven members.

"It's totally obvious that any notion of excluding Russia or putting pressure on Russia appears simply not serious," Russian president Dmitry Medvedev was quoted by AFP as saying on Thursday.

In October 2007, US Republican presidential candidate John McCain said that if elected he would push to exclude Russia from the Group of Eight to punish Moscow for rolling back political freedoms.
Speaking to journalists, Medvedev earlier said the US in 'essentially a depression' is in no position to advise other countries on their affairs.
He added that a revived Russia had a right to assume a larger role in a world economic system that should no longer be dominated by the United States

Medvedev argued that the question of democracy was irrelevant to the G8 and, that the United States had more pressing matters to attend to.
“The Group of Eight exists not because someone likes or dislikes it, but because objectively, they are the biggest world economies and the most serious players from the foreign policy point of view,” the Russian president stressed.

Medvedev also warned against any attempts to put restrictions on his country for it would 'damage the entire world order'.

"I am sure that any administration of the United States of America, if it wishes to succeed, among other things, in overcoming essentially a depression that exists in the American economic market, must conduct a pragmatic policy inside the country and abroad," he added.

Russia: US in no position to advise

[Michael1]

All you have to do is look at whose in the G8 and it's obvious which country doesn't belong: the Soviet Union.

The G8 used to have fewer members and has always been a group of democracies. You just recently were invited to the party and now that you're here it's seems you're no longer in the proper attire.

Of course we have every right and reason to kick you back out. You've regressed and the world is starting to realize that we trusted you too hastily.

[Mikeyy]

How long has Russia been free? And it only lasted this long. Sad really. Now they are turning right back in to a one party state. They don't get it. I promise you that they are turning in to another Nazi Regime. It sounds just exactly the same. Anti Jewish. Boris here has probably never met a Jew in his life. But people already told him all he needs to know.
The problem with Russia is that they are armed well enough that they will no doubt cause a bunch of death and destruction before they crash. All because they think they are superior. What a bunch off horse shit.

[saltwn]

Happy Fourth of July, everybody!