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| Russia cancels military exercise with US |
| 2006-09-05 |
| MOSCOW : Joint Russian-US military exercises scheduled to take place in western Russia later this month have been cancelled due to questions about the "status" of US military personnel. "The reason is that the question of the status of American personnel being sent to take part in the exercises has not been resolved," Interfax quoted an unnamed senior Russian defense ministry official as saying. The exercises involving middle-ranking officers from both countries had been due to take place in the Nizhny Novgorod region, east of Moscow, in the second half of September, he said Tuesday. A spokesman for the defence ministry would not confirm or deny the report. The US embassy in Moscow said it had no immediate comment. The official quoted by Interfax did not give details about the status problem, but also referred to a series of protests by Communists who said that US troops should not be allowed on Russian soil because of US foreign policy. "Emotions being raised over these manoeuvres by certain political forces do not match the scope of the planned exercises," the official said. The Russian Communist Party had demanded the cancellation of the exercises, threatening to demonstrate across the country on September 14. "The Communists oppose sabre-rattling on our soil by the army that bombed the sovereign Yugoslavia, trampled the statehood of several countries in the Middle East, and is trying by hook or by crook to perpetuate its military presence in the territory of the former Soviet Union," a communist resolution stated Tuesday, Interfax reported. Russian-US military exercises have been held periodically since the early 1990s, with manoeuvres in 2004 and 2005 dubbed Torgau, after the name of the German town where Soviet and US troops linked up in the last days of World War II. Borsch why does it hate us? |
| Posted by:RD |
| #6 This is sort like the guy who's talking about getting an apendectomy when he's really about to get an enema. Russia thinks it's sowing the whirlwind, when in reality, it's merely feeding the crocodile. The less insight Russia has into our military ability, the better off we are. We know we can kick their @ss any time we want to. They know we can kick their @ss any time we want to. Even the old Soviet military would have been a turkey shoot for us. Only their nuclear weapons posed any sort of substantial threat. Why do you think they so carefully crafted up Middle East terrorism and set it on our necks? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-05 23:13 |
| #5 status? Rapidly approaching "Opfor" if you keep supporting Iran, NK, Syria, Hezbollah, et al. Sucks to be a former empire with an aging alcoholic populace, no economic base (except Stoli, thank you), selling weapons to your future Islamo-oppressers... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-09-05 22:40 |
| #4 Ha Ha you suck Russia. |
| Posted by: Gleager Snurong5374 2006-09-05 22:35 |
| #3 Russia soooo wants to be the Soviet Union again. Too bad they suck. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-09-05 16:46 |
| #2 BWAAA!!!! Russia-once a great super power, now reduced to third world status hand wringing and cancelling over Status of Forces agreements. Sounds like they are going the way of the Philippines!! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-09-05 16:27 |
| #1 Why hell yes we were going to use live ammo. Don't be such spoil sports. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-09-05 16:13 |