This Kagarlitsky is really no surprise.  Every country has its traitors.
And here we have the added factor of enormous US bribes, sometimes
through IMF (see Yeltsin in this connection).
wcm
>
> This new article by Kagarlitsky,  published in THE MOSCOW TIMES,  hits a
> new low for the wing of Social Democracy,  that looks for further defeat
> of Russia by Western Imperialism.      Kagarlitsky is unable to control
> his lust for a new defeat for Russia,  from the consortium of
> imperialist powers that have already caused so much misery for the ex-
> Soviet Bloc.     He hopes that a defeat will >>trigger new upheavals
> within Russia itself<<.
>
> Totally lacking,  is any explanation of why that would be a progressive
> result.      How a defeat of Russian national interests, from the
> Imperialist countries,  would be of benefit for anybody,  is not
> explained.     Instead, we are treated to a gleeful summation of why
> defeat supposedly has to happen.
>
> The amazing quality of the analysis, is in how an article analyzing the
> war in Chechnya,  can be written without once mentioning oil, The United
> States, or anything else,  other than Russia  and Chechnya.   The rest
> of the world seems to sink into the Bermuda Triangle,  as far as
> Kagarlitsky is concerned.    Nothing else matters to Kagarlitsky.
> Just the defeat of the Russian government.   Anyone this myoptic,  needs
> to rush to an optometrist, as rapidly as possible.
>
> But then again,  for liberals that believe that the US is a relatively
> benign force  compared to Hussein,  Indonesia,  Milosevic, or the evil
> Greater Russian chauvinists, this article wll be your cup of tea.
>
> Sincerely........................Tony Abdo
>