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2021-05-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian Foreign Ministry: the development of US missile defense provokes an arms race

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Posted by badanov 2021-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Sez the flapping gums from the city ringed by nuclear warhead topped ABM interceptors.

Posted by Sneart Thromonter8301 2021-05-04 01:59|| 2021-05-04 01:59|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ those aren't forward deployed on the US border.

Posted by Crert Gray2218 2021-05-04 02:10|| 2021-05-04 02:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Shame on the Russians aiming nuclear missiles at Europe. Not a very INF Treaty friendly act. Why, it's as if you can't trust the Russians for shit.

Posted by Sneart Thromonter8301 2021-05-04 02:29|| 2021-05-04 02:29|| Front Page Top

#4 "Never trust an Arab, never trust a Russian."
~ author unknown.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-04 02:36|| 2021-05-04 02:36|| Front Page Top

#5 You want to be at the mercy of the American ruling class? Well, neither do Russians.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-04 04:19|| 2021-05-04 04:19|| Front Page Top

#6
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry drew attention to the reports of the American media that the United States intends to allocate $ 18 billion for the project of creating and deploying promising missile interceptors that would replace strategic silo interceptor missiles.

...Shows how much they know about the way we do things here. $18B wouldn't pay for the silo cup holders.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-05-04 05:58|| 2021-05-04 05:58|| Front Page Top

#7 So race.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-04 06:24|| 2021-05-04 06:24|| Front Page Top

#8 You want to be at the mercy of the American ruling class? Well, neither do Russians.

So they're going to use Joe Biden, who they helped install, as an excuse to make war upon us and the Ukraine and all the free peoples in between Western Europe and Russia.

Just like Hitler said he was fighting The Bolsheviks, who the Germans had installed in Russia in the closing days of WW1, and who on their own had killed millions of people.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-04 10:17|| 2021-05-04 10:17|| Front Page Top

#9 pps: the Wuhan virus has thus far killed 100,000 or so Russians, according to World of Meters, and Putin and his little city-vaporizers has done nothing but continue their alliance with its creators.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-04 10:20|| 2021-05-04 10:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Putin's has no "alliance" with China. They're enemies, always have been. They've gone to war in my lifetime. China wants to take over half of Russia

Posted by Flitch Schwarzeneggar4677 2021-05-04 11:35|| 2021-05-04 11:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Didn't I hear this line back in Reagan's era. You know when Senator Ted Kennedy asked the Russians to help defeat Reagan's reelection.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-04 11:56|| 2021-05-04 11:56|| Front Page Top

#12 If he doesn't he seems to have a funny way of showing it.

The formal alliance is called the Shanghai Cooperative Association.

You can look it up if you want.

In the meantime, Russian criticism of the current US administration is like Mussolini saying Petain is untrustworthy.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-04 12:25|| 2021-05-04 12:25|| Front Page Top

#13 I wish I well as well informed and intelligent like you, Thing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-04 12:57|| 2021-05-04 12:57|| Front Page Top

#14 I wish I well as well informed and intelligent ~~like you, Thing~~ as the rest of you all. I don't always agree (hell, hardly ever totally agree) but there are a lot who are worth reading. Annoying? Often. Worth reading? Yes.

Posted by B3/503173rdAbnBde 2021-05-04 17:05|| 2021-05-04 17:05|| Front Page Top

#15 Rantburg University is indeed a wonderful thing, B3/503173rdAbnBde. I’ve learnt so much here over the years, and I look forward to discovering what you know that I don’t. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-04 19:20|| 2021-05-04 19:20|| Front Page Top

#16 #12 The formal alliance is called the Shanghai Cooperative Association. You can look it up if you want.

I do. I did -- and I can't find a single analysis, by any reputable western institute or agency, of this oh-so-fearsome alliance.

Not one. Nothing at all in the last decade.

Rather curious, don't you think, for a supposedly major military alliance?

Wouldn't you expect dozens - hundreds, actually -- of serious in-depth analyses of this alliance'a capabilitys and intentions?

If it were something more than a bullshit PR stunt, that is... signifying nothing

Posted by Chesney Grath8225 2021-05-04 20:15|| 2021-05-04 20:15|| Front Page Top

#17 They might not have an alliance now but their military equipment looks nearly identical for some reason.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-05-04 20:55|| 2021-05-04 20:55|| Front Page Top

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