To begin, I'd rather have Russian drinking beer than vodka. It would reduce the dangers to Russian livers. Glasses of beer rather than shots of vodka can deter some levels of alcoholism. It makes drinking more social, too.
But, if I am not mistaken President Putin is quite the martial arts expert. Steven Seagal fits well into that picture.
Russia really is not an enemy to the USA. If it wanted to be it could have been far more an enemy than currently postured. Some of the misinterpretation of Russian within international relations is due to having a convenient enemy for politicians on both sides to point to for blame than accepting responsibility for wayward policy decisions.
I hate to disappoint anyone, but, Russia is not much more than a hand shake away from coordinated efforts to stem terrorism and find partners to peace. Economics could be different for any country if Russia was not forced into being THE balance of power in the world.
I don't want to hear any two-faced mumbo-jumbo from these folks either. They met with people in Russia that helped and that is what I want to hear them say to their constituents and THE PARTY as well.
Abby Ohlheiser
June 2, 2013
A group of GOP-led congressmen, (click here) with Steven Seagal as tour guide, have wrapped up a fact-finding trip to Russia, where they apparently failed to find any significant clues related to the radicalization of the brothers behind the Boston bombings. But the mission had a secondary effect: it looks like the group, which included Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, and Rep. Steve King, have found some rhetorical common ground with Russian officials.
Seagal is pals with a handful of influential Russian officials, as Michael Weiss at the Atlantic explained earlier this week. And it sounds like the actor called in a bunch of favors to get the congressmen access to officials they wouldn't have otherwise spoken to — including members of the the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB. The lawmakers were impressed, as evidenced by the Associated Press story on the trip:...
