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."

Comments

Against who?

[faragon]

Quite ironic to help against themselves. If there was no actual "enemy" no missile barrier should be needed at all.

Re:Against who?

[Elektroschock]

Islam is a religion of war, a political ideology. Don't underestimate it. Missionaries are cheaper than missiles.

"An estimated US$45 billion has been spent by the Saudi Arabian government financing mosques and Islamic schools in foreign countries. Ain al-Yaqeen, a Saudi newspaper, reported in 2002 that Saudi funds may have contributed to building as many as 1,500 mosques and 2,000 other Islamic centers."

That is the real reason behind the islamic renaissance.

Re:Against who?

[Elektroschock]

You haven't understood the economics of Islam. Any muslim believer should pilgrim to mecca and medina once in his life time ("hadsch"). In which nation are these cities? Saudi Arabia. In which direction do muslims pray? They pray towards a black stone in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. You can imagine the business value of being in the center of a religion with a billion believers

Saudi Arabia also own Fox news. The Saudi Arabian funding of islamic mission led to the conservative renaissance in many oriental states. After 9/11, attributed to a Saudi terrorists, they used the USA as a tool to eliminate their longterm enemy Saddam Hussein.

Re:Against who?

[Elektroschock]

Saudi Arabia an absolute monarchy owes its wealth to oil exports, they do not depend on US funding. They are world's largest oil exporter, 90% of exports are oil. 75% of state income depends on oil GDP per capita 23 000 $.