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« on: November 11, 2009, 11:31:13 PM » |
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When you bargain w/ a tough opponent it makes sense to delegate to a partisan negotiator and to use stringent rules, requiring general agreement on your side of the table. Eastern Europeans being inbetween Russia and Western Europe is, actually good for the Westerners on energy: they can always credibly say that they'd love to yield in negotations, but Poles/Ukrainians/Czechs would veto that. Once the pipeline is there, Germans will be one-on-one w/ the Russians. Do they REALLY want it?
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