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2006-05-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by JerseyMike 2006-05-11 12:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...but without repeating "the mistakes of the Soviet Union and of the Cold War" by draining the country's resources.

Gee, that was the only thing that kept your country from looking like a run over skunk on a highway during the cold war...

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-11 12:34|| 2006-05-11 12:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Say Pootie, has the number of Chinese east of the Urals passed the 50% mark? Putin needs to realize the empire is dead. Whether rump Russia survives does not depend on threatening the US, because basically, we don't care one way or the other.

I think the best thing the US can do is finance 2 dozen large PWR reactors in Ukraine, Georgia, Baltics, etc and conclude favorable trade agreements (and anticorruption redress mechanisms) with them to expand trade and encourage jobs to locate there.

Posted by ed 2006-05-11 12:56|| 2006-05-11 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 He said the new missiles and warheads would be able to change direction in flight, foiling advanced defense systems such as the one being developed by the United States ......which initiates computer change direction commands that cannot be overriden, and returns the missile to it's silo.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-11 14:41|| 2006-05-11 14:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Ed, have you noticed how Pootie, with his declining population, jumps in bed with the two true enemies adjacent to him, China and the Caliphate, that are ready to grab whatever of Russia they can in order to defend Russia from the superpower on the other side of the globe that has no interest in Russian territory? And the Russian people rally round him for it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-11 14:52|| 2006-05-11 14:52|| Front Page Top

#5 The Soviet's brainwashing was pretty thorough. Unfortunately, the Russians don't have time for the current leadership to die off before they figure who are their real enemies.

Posted by ed 2006-05-11 15:30|| 2006-05-11 15:30|| Front Page Top

#6 What about money? How the hell is he planning to pay for all this? Russia has about half of the economic resources available to them before the break up of the soviet union. I think he may be full of shit.

Posted by Spavins Sputle3475 2006-05-11 18:07|| 2006-05-11 18:07|| Front Page Top

#7 On top of all of that, we bankrupted the Soviet Union with the Cold War - they literally fell apart when the low-scale civil unrest started in the Warsaw Pact countries. Russia is going to outdo the Soviet Union? I don't think so. Plus, in about 7 years, they are going to have bigger worries when China decides to pull a Tibet on Siberia and all the natural resources contained within.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-05-11 18:22|| 2006-05-11 18:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Think someone should give him a copy of Clancy's "The Bear and the Dragon"?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-05-11 19:38|| 2006-05-11 19:38|| Front Page Top

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