Russia has ‘severed’ partnership with Europe, says Germany

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/02/russia-has-severed-partnership-with-europe-says-germany/



Russia has ‘severed’ partnership with Europe, says Germany
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 8:36 EDT

Russia has “effectively severed its partnership” with Europe and wants to establish a new order, German President Joachim Gauck said Monday.

“We want partnership and good neighbourly relations (with Russia)” but on the condition that Moscow changes its policies and that there is a “return to respect for the rights of nations”, Gauck said at a ceremony in Gdansk to mark the 75th anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Poland that set off World War II.

Evoking the “miracle” of post-war reconciliation between Germans and Poles, Gauck said he was disappointed with the turn of events in Russia.

“We believed and wanted to believe that Russia too, the country of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, could be part of Europe.”

[djean111]

1. Why would anyone want to join Europe, with its austerity shit?

Also wonder why no one is allowed to have a "new order" - when did the world get set in stone? Did the banks do that?
No, I am not a Putin fan. Putin is temporary, anyway. So is Obama. IMO Putinis being used as a boogeyman right now. Clobbering us with 9/11! 9/11! is getting stale.