{"id":12648,"date":"2015-12-02T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12648"},"modified":"2015-12-02T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:31:47","slug":"russias-not-so-splendid-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/02\/russias-not-so-splendid-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s (Not So) Splendid Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/russis-not-so-splendid-isolation\/27400469.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bc421b2d-c092-47b9-bd83-1fa8e2a6135c_cx4_cy11_cw93_mw1024_mh1024_s.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Brian Whitmore at RFE\/RL:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.&#8221;Russia&#8217;s new course means it is free from any and all influences and restrictions,&#8221; Frolov wrote. &#8220;This freedom means that Russia does not need to abide by international law&#8230;and that Russia&#8217;s claims to a leading role in the world cannot be contained.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The cost of this diplomacy of liberation, of course, is increasing international isolation and ostracism. For the time being, as Frolov notes, Moscow has been able to &#8220;divorce foreign policy from economic interests and capabilities.&#8221; But in the long run, the current course is not sustainable. <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, isolated and resentful powers &#8212; particularly isolated and resentful powers with nuclear weapons, large militaries, and vast natural resources &#8212; can cause a lot of damage. <\/p>\n<p>Which means that, in the short term, we are in for what Ben Judah, author of the book Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In And Out Of Love With Vladimir Putin, calls &#8220;our violent new normal.&#8221; &#8220;The unthinkable happens, is quickly accepted, and fades obscure into a darkening background,&#8221; Judah wrote recently in Prospect. &#8220;Grey wars, is what we have now: creeping skirmishes, proxy clashes, hybrid assaults and dogfights with Russia.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/russis-not-so-splendid-isolation\/27400469.html\">Russia&#8217;s (Not So) Splendid Isolation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Brian Whitmore at RFE\/RL: &#8230;.&#8221;Russia&#8217;s new course means it is free from any and all influences and restrictions,&#8221; Frolov wrote. &#8220;This freedom means that Russia does not need to abide by international law&#8230;and that Russia&#8217;s claims to a leading role in the world cannot be contained.&#8221; The cost of this diplomacy of liberation, of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/02\/russias-not-so-splendid-isolation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Russia&#8217;s (Not So) Splendid Isolation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stock-markets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia&#039;s (Not So) Splendid Isolation - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia&#039;s (Not So) Splendid Isolation - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Brian Whitmore at RFE\/RL: &#8230;.&#8221;Russia&#8217;s new course means it is free from any and all influences and restrictions,&#8221; 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