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Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe
Melugo writes to let us know that Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned that US plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Moscow to target its weapons against Europe. This reader notes: "It feels like the Cold War all over again." "'If the American nuclear potential grows in European territory, we have to give ourselves new targets in Europe,' Putin said... 'It is up to our military to define these targets, in addition to defining the choice between ballistic and cruise missiles.'"
Firmly in the US side.
Latinamerica declared itself a zone free of nuclear weapons many decades ago, as a consequence no nuclear weapons are pointed against our countries. If anything, that saved the ass of Argentina when they fought against the UK, a nuclear state. Had Argentina had WMDs, who knows if the war fought for the control of the Malvinas islands in the 80s would have been limited to conventional warfare.
The strategic importance of Latinamerica can't be denied, just remembre the Cuba misile crisis. My point is that Europe, being equally or even more important strategically could also decide to go neutral on the issue of nuclear weapons.
But when countries like the UK and Poland (amongst others) shamefully allow "rendition" of terrorism suspects and beg for the US to deploy missiles on their territories, well, there is little hope for Europe to stop being a board for the global monopoly game between RUssia and the US where European defense interests are decided in Washington and antgonized in Moscow.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Should you be a quater Russian you'd prefer to shoot yourself rather than to suggest supporting merciless terrorists. You know nothing of Russia.
The US BMD system - even if placed in an optimal position in Russia itself - would have absolutely no effect on a Russian attack even if it scored 100% against the attack.
The US knows this. The Russians know this.
Draw a great circle from central Iran to Washington DC. This path will not quite cross Poland - where the US wants to place their base - but coes damned close. Poland is a perfect place for such a base to counter an (admittedly somewhat vapourous) Iranian threat.
Russia justs needs an excuse to rile their citizens, rattle their rusty sbaers, and try to pretend like they are still a superpower (which they never actually really were).
So be it.
A better way to counter the threat is to just destroy any Iranian launch facilities now. God knows Bush is chomping at the bit for yet another oil war.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
...whilst we plant a few more missles here and there? I mean, really, it's not against you! It never was! blink blink puppy dog bush eyes.
Every experiment which ends in a big bang is a good experiment.
Leave democracy to yourself (you're about to lose it at home) and let others preserve diversity of cultures, languages, various ways of life.
Though I'm in doubt of your ability to perceive it. You've mix it all up, names, places, causes and consequences, let alone you forget about the overwhelming life complexity. And in addition you've just accused the Russians of Nazism, the people who lost more than 20 000 000 lives in WW2 against German Nazism.
Personally, I could care less about Europe. They are ungrateful little bastards and need to be left to their own. That means gone with the social programs to pay for defense. Without the protection afforded by the US, they would be conquered faster than the French can surrender. Whether it becomes an Islamic super state or a Russian gulag, I could care less. I'm tired on your incessant whining. Like a spoiled child Europe needs to be bitch slapped back into reality.
I must say that this post is the biggest piece of pro-"America Rules!" trash I have seen in a long time. I love how you keep saying "Most Americans" as if you knew what most Americans thought. I'm an American. I'm not very PROUD of that fact recently, but it is there. The only reason I was remotely worried about the Iranian "hostage" situation was because I feared our wonderful "kill em all and let God sort em out" government would use it as an excuse to turn an already 2 front war(Afghanistan and Iraq) into a 3 front war. As they said in one of my favorite book series: "Only an idiot fights a war on 2 fronts. Only a complete madman fights a war on 3." I don't view Islam as a bunch of suicide bombers any more than I view Christianity as a bunch of witch burners. There are unreasonable fanatics in every religion. Then there is good old Israel...Palestine shoots a few missiles at Israel, killing less than 10 people. What does Israel do? They make bombing runs into Palestine, killing almost 100 people. They have committed as many acts of terrorism as Palestine in their private little war down there. I personally don't see any reason why we even support Israel, other than the conspiracy theorists' idea that they have way too much say in what our government does. Oh, and the Swiss also "deny" that the holocaust happened. Are we going to be pointing missiles at them next?
You forgot that Bush, and much of the people he's got surrounding him are all fundamentalist Christians who are basically hoping like crazy that the apocalypse will happen on their watch, so World War 3 isn't exactly "off-limits" to their way of thinking.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!