What their Gods demand of the Faithful.
MOSCOW — A day after the American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice went to Georgia, not far from the front lines, to press for immediate withdrawal of Russian forces there, the Kremlin announced on Saturday that it had approved a framework for a cease-fire.
The Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, signed the six-point settlement after meeting with Russian security officials, the Kremlin press office said. But it did not specify whether Russia had specifically assented to revisions in one of the provisions, which the Georgians had considered a loophole that Russia could use to justify its advance deep into Georgia...
Team Russe, like Team Amerika, is hardly one voice. For every negotiation-prone high vampire like Baker or Gates or Rice the Company has another thirsty ghoul like Darth Cheneyburton or Field Walrus Bolton ready to rend blood and souls for Exxon. For every negotiation-prone Medvedev there are doubtless other shadowy Kremlin figures ready to roll into Poland, or use the Tsar Bomba to secure the Homeland.
The name of their god is Hegemon, and each faction vies for it with tactics they understand best.
The negotiators are willing to sacrifice hundreds, or thousands, or perhaps hundreds of thousands to keep their markets stable. Other acolytes of the Jaguar Gods would wipe out whole populations for their everlasting profit. It does make a difference which faction is in power.
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