Re: (russian)Talks With EU Stall Due to Lithuanian Veto

"Mikhail Medved" <mikhail_bear@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Apr 29, 2:12 pm, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Mikhail Medved wrote:
>> > On Apr 25, 5:06 pm, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> "Mikhail Medved" <mikhail_b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>>
>>news:0f0c295e-9898-4183-8de3-90013e7d5ba7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >>> Russia has everything it needs for the life of its citizens.
>> >> Really? I wonder what's on all those trucks going across the 
>> >> Finno-Russian
>> >> border then? An average of 1,300 trucks daily at the Vaalimaa
station 
>> >> alone.
>> >> Almost 40% of Russia's im****ts go via Finland. But you say that 
>> >> 'Russia has
>> >> everything it needs for the life of its citizens'...
>>
>> > You unhappy of that? Then try to lobby your Finnish government to
stop
>> > the trade across the border and see what happened (he-he-he).
>>
>> He-he yourself. Who do you think would suffer more, the Finns or the
>> Russians?
>
> I don't think Russians will suffer even a tiny bit. And I think you
> don't understand the world you are living in: best western companies
> are standing in line to establish modern production in Russia. If
> Finland stops its trade with Russia, there will be plenty of players
> willing to start production of the same goods in Russia proper.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I like normal trade relations between my country
> and its neighbors. But when someone tries to use it as a blackmail, as
> the Lithuanian government chose to do lately, Russia will rightfully
> tell them to take a walk.
>
> Let me do a little forecast: Lithuania will not get a cent because of
> its stupid grandstanding. Instead, it will have to get rid of its
> current stupid government, just as Poland had to do not so long ago.
>
>> It would take years for the Russian side to establish a
>> reliable substitute for Finland-based logistics.
>
> Don't be ridiculous. Russia needs Finland as much as a rich estate
> owner needs a gardener. If the current gardener choose to "take a
> stand" instead of work according to the contract, he will be quickly
> substituted.


It is indeed a strange situation where
the "gardener" lives in a better and
more expensive home (not to mention
one that is incomparably better
 ordered) than the "rich estate owner "
who lives in a filthy hovel.

Strange indeed.

Best - - Henry