Barclays Wisdom (Continued).
The West owes a debt to President Putin and his protege Dmitry Medvedev and vice versa. Russia is the West's salvation, and we no less Russia's salvation, from dominance of the world economy by China and India. "United we stand, divided we fall" at full force here. And, a "united we stand, divided we fall" policy that extends beyond financial markets to included a unified policy on Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Kosovo, Palestine and the counterterrorism of extremists elements the West's messianic crusade to coerce the world into an embrace of democratic principals has wrought.
The sour grapes must end regardless of the humiliation to the West of its defeat. The defeat includes the excessive baggage of Mikhail Khodorkovsky that the US must bear and Boris Berezovsky for the UK, a justly imprisoned scourge and a discarded scourge on Russian society, another hallmark victory of President Putin over the West. They are our now scourges to bear. Ode to Barclays!

Karon von Gerhke, Alexandria, VA USA

Barclays' is wise. Russia, China and India are in line to replace the United States and the United Kingdom as the leader of the WESTERN world.
The pervasive mainstream media hype against Russian leadership is just that-HYPE. HYPE stemming from sour grapes of a disastrously foiled foreign policy of the 1990s when the US and UK installed an oligarchical class of bandits who had been primed to sell out to the West.
President Putin derailed the attempted coup to usurp the wealth of his Motherland, not by revisiting the rigged privatization schemes of his inebriated predecessor but rather by allowing those privatizations to flourish. The result has produced monopolies the likes of which the world has known with majority stock interest under the control the Russian government.
Abject fear set in as the West realized they had been craftily bested by the free market system they imposed on Russia. A stabilization fund of $500 billion and mounting says it all.
Barclays wise indeed!

Karon von Gerhke, Alexandria, VA USA