Comments on: Russian Spies and the US-Russia Relationship http://russianblog.fraec.org/2010/07/09/russian-spies-and-the-us-russia-relationship/ Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:25:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Wilma http://russianblog.fraec.org/2010/07/09/russian-spies-and-the-us-russia-relationship/#comment-154 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:10:09 +0000 http://russianblog.fraec.org/?p=202#comment-154 I don’t think that the spy arrests are very serious for the fundamentals of U.S. Russia relations. Digging around in the neighbor’s garbage is business as usual. I am willing to bet that UK intelligence agencies receive and process intelligence about the U.S. and vice versa. Other than the effort invested in investigating the ten who were traded, they were no serious threat to U.S. security. On the other hand, the people prosecuted in Russia for cooperating with the U.S. (allegedly) sound like serious spies.

Monday morning, the spooks of all sides will be back to their old stuff. In the meantime, the serious leaders will be figuring out what is best for their countries and dwelling on spy scandals is not one of them.

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