Russia’s President Demitri Medvedev apparently thinks that people outside of his country are deaf to doublegoodspeak. World to Russia: You can’t play to the beat of two drums. You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Just like you can’t say you don’t want hostility but refuse to back down from a hostility you practically initiated. Also, you are not the arbiter of national independence. We here in the West find it really cute that you think you can proclaim regions independent on your own accord.

MOSCOW - Russia’s president said Sunday his country will give military aid to the two separatist regions at the center of the war with Georgia — signaling Moscow has no intention of backing down in the face of Western pressure.

Dmitry Medvedev also warned that American domination of world affairs is unacceptable, though he insisted that Russia did not want hostile relations with the United States and other Western nations.

Medvedev’s decision Tuesday to recognize the Georgian breakaway provinces South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent drew condemnation from the West. Though no other countries have followed Russia’s lead, Medvedev reaffirmed the decision on Sunday.

“We have made our decision, and it’s irreversible,” he said in a speech broadcast on Russian television.

Translation: Russia wants to be hostile without being hostile.

How can you say you don’t want hostile relations with us yet provide military support against our allies? Perhaps we should send in a little more than just the USCG Cutter Dallas with humanitarian to remind Russia that it was their iron curtain- and not ours- that fell.

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