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Russia sends a very clear message to the West
vineyardsaker.blogspot.com — Russia recently embarked on the most massive military war game since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The role of the Ground Forces was limited. The Navy and the Air Force which took center stage. The war game, code name "Stability 2008" included the use of strategic rocket bombers, inflight refueling aircraft, intermediate range heavy bombers
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- wariscrime, on 10/14/2008, -2/+14NATO states and Russia work together very well, helping each other to steal more money "for defense."
- sheeplescareme, on 10/15/2008, -0/+8neither obama or mccain seem to be handling this correctly-they are both tugging the tail of the bear.
- USNavyBlue, on 10/15/2008, -1/+4Russia seems to be ramping up on Defense because NATO is surrounding Russia's borders with the Missile Defense System. Condi Rice raced to Warsaw to close a deal to put 10 anti-missile missiles and U.S. Patriot missiles manned by Americans into Poland.
The USA unilaterally abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty because our technology was superior, then planned to site anti-missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic to defend against Iranian missiles, though Iran has no ICBMs and no atomic bombs. A Russian counter-offer to have us together put an anti-missile system in Azerbaijan was rejected out of hand.
When Moscow pulled the Red Army out of Europe, closed its bases in Cuba, dissolved the evil empire, let the Soviet Union break up into 15 states, and sought friendship and alliance with the United States, what did the USA do?
American carpetbaggers colluded with Muscovite Scalawags to loot the Russian nation. Breaking a pledge to Mikhail Gorbachev, the USA moved the military alliance into Eastern Europe, then onto Russia's doorstep. Six Warsaw Pact nations and three former republics of the Soviet Union are now NATO members.
How would the USA have reacted if Moscow had brought Western Europe into
the Warsaw Pact, established bases in Mexico and Panama, put missile defense radars and rockets in Cuba, and joined with China to build pipelines to transfer Mexican and Venezuelan oil to Pacific ports for shipment to Asia? And cut us out? If there were Russian and Chinese advisers training Latin American armies, the way we are in the former Soviet republics, how would the USA react? Would the USA look with bemusement on such Russian behavior?
For a decade, some of us have warned about the folly of getting into Russia's space and getting into Russia's face. The chickens of democratic imperialism have now come home to roost.
And Obama and McCain have NO damn answers except MORE WAR and Empire Building.
What the hell happened to: Entangle alliances with no one, but do trade and commerce with all? [verbatim] I guess that too is outdated! /roll eyes / sarcasm
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