A parable called:
Circling the Wagons

Once upon a time,
a rogue state dropped its disguise…
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The Ironical Chronicle

A Historical Watershed

March 17, 2003

By OTTO

he New York Times' headline for its edition of today is:

U.S. Ends Effort for U.N. War Approval And Declares Diplomatic Window 'Closed'

The bad news is that the US, unable to drum up any support in the Security Council except for its one long-time and one new-found lackey, Blair and Aznar (Spain), respectively, will announce it will invade Iraq anyway.

The situation is a replica of what caused the failure of the League of Nations: Japan and Germany left the League because of its opposition to their imperialist foreign policies. In the prevailing wisdom on the causes of WW2, this failure of the League is cited as one of them. (…)

…and went on a rampage.
The faked threat.
The anticipated treat.

But the rampage didn't go so well after all, and so it added deception.
Diplomatic Deception.

The country with the most experience with rogues thought it over and decided…

…once is enough. And so the rogue's gravediggers decided to circle the wagons.

Putin: China-Russia Strategic Partnership Positive Element in World Order

March 20, 2006

President Vladimir Putin said in Moscow Saturday that China-Russia strategic partnership is a positive element in the international order, and pledged continued efforts to ensure that bilateral ties will go forward steadily.

He made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Xinhua prior to a visit to China on March 21-22 at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao.

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According to Putin, both Russia and China agree that negative impacts of "double standards" on international affairs are constantly obvious; serious problems in arms control and nonproliferation still exist; and signs of conflict among different civilizations are making themselves increasingly obvious.

"It should be acknowledged that such conflict has not only been caused by terrorism and extremism, but is also a result of the move of of someone to handle international relations in ideology-based and stereotyped ways, and their attempt to forcibly "export democracy" and impose their own cultures, standards of living and values on other people," Putin said.