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Russia To Help NATO Build Anti-Missile Network
Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that Russia has agreed to cooperate with NATO on erecting a US-planned anti-missile network in Europe protecting the continent against possible ballistic missile attacks from Iran or elsewhere. The anti-missile coverage would be anchored by a US land- and sea-based deployment, reconfigured by Obama from earlier plans devised under the Bush administration. The new idea would be to link individual national missile defenses into the US network and place them all under a NATO command and control center with authority to respond to an attack. 'We see Russia as a partner, not an adversary,' says President Obama, hailing the NATO-Russian accord. President Dmitri Medvedev warned that Russia's cooperation must be 'a full-fledged strategic partnership between Russia and NATO' and not just a nod in Moscow's direction to spare Russian feelings while Europe tends to its own defenses in tandem with the United States."
Yeah you don't get something like that just for being elected ya'know.
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I fail to see how it's a foreign policy achievement. I see it more as a "He was against it before he was for it!" .
http://security.nationaljournal.com/2009/09/obamas-missile-defense-plan-sm.php
A little over a year after telling Poland "No", and it seems like that people forgot it ever happened. Googling "Obama stops missile shield" on the news search came up with no articles at all.
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Russia has a missile shield you dolt.
Always had one.
The missile interceptors around and inside Moscow have been since the 70-es. The first missile defence treaty specified that existing systems are to stay. While USA have barely managed to get theirs working for a couple of months in 1975, the Russians have managed to deploy, improve and maintain theirs ever since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_system
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not thought crime, just silly. Muslim world is too diverse and with too many large groups that have nothing but contempt for each other. The major divisions of islam even disagree on what a legitimate "caliph" would be. That "caliphate" based in Turkey, the fag end of the Ottoman empire, just used the word as rallying point, not a "caliph" by the old definitions.
The threats to world peace right now are made by war-mongering "christian" nations, starting unnecessary wars of choice and then deliberately prolonging them for defense contractor coin, power, political coin. e.g., Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War, and yes even war in Afghanistan as those who attacked the U.S. aren't there and the label "Taliban" is given to every disgruntled Afghan who picks up a rifle.
So your fear of "Caliphate" is nothing more than anti-islamic racist hate mongering against groups of people who are "different than you"
Obama is an appeaser in the Neville Chamberlain mold.
There's an important distinction: Chamberlain loved his country. Obama loves the world.
Obama has one thing in common with all megalomaniacs: he loves himself. But that's no surprise: it's a requirement for anyone seeking that particular position.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
You are totally correct. If the Russians actually get any technical access to this missile-defense system, its value drops tremendously.
The President needs to ask himself, what actually changed in 1991? The Russians lost a little territory on the western frontier and some allies in the same area. They were temporarily weakened a bit. As far as I can tell, nothing else actually changed, except the intelligence services replaced the CPSU as the governing instrument.
Nope, that's our doing. We line the Saudis pockets, because that family is, and has been for generations the friends of our petro-dollar cartel.
The religion of the Saudis is Saudi-ism. They use Islam to manipulate.
what a laughable example. Yet another proof the problem is us.
The Saudis are Sunnis, by the way. The Shiites hate their guts.
That imagined business value is NOTHING compared to the billions we pump to the evil Saudi family, who oppress their citizens including maiming, rape, torture, murder.
And your mentioning that most 9/11 terrorists were Saudis only reinforces my point. We fund the Saudis, who for years funded Al-Qaeda, who were led by CIA agent Bin Laden.
We attacked Saddam, because even though in the past we helped make his reign and gave him his weapons to mass murder, he didn't want to go along with our petro-dollar cartel.
All this proves that nothing of these major world problems has anything to do with Islam per se, but much to do with Western meddling and money.