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2006-08-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ruskie General of Army Slams US Missle Defense

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Posted by Captain America 2006-08-01 00:21|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They are just mad their ballistic missile exports just went to shit with the deployment of the missile defense.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-08-01 00:34|| 2006-08-01 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 You know the [Ultra] Left > the world would be a safe place iff everyone had the same, ergo which is why the USSR didn't give their East-Euro Warsaw Pact nations their own nukes nor controlled their own Govts + armed forces, etal.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-01 00:41|| 2006-08-01 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 They're selling Beta Tape Decks in a Digital World.

"unilateral global superiority"

Hell, I kinda like the sound of it, myself.

Posted by Thaque Ebbeth9552 2006-08-01 00:44|| 2006-08-01 00:44|| Front Page Top

#4 He writes that Washington has taken a turn towards unilateral global superiority

Wonder what tree he's been sleepin under for the past 15 years. They commented similarly on Reagan's Star Wars initiative as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-01 07:36|| 2006-08-01 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The great irony of ballistic missiles is that their era is drawing to a close. Energy weapons are the wave of the future, and they give the edge back to defense weaponry, instead of offensive weaponry.

No recent mention has been made of the eastern effort to build a nuclear detonation powered ballistic missile shield, theoretically able to take down an entire salvo of ballistic missiles at once.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-01 11:03|| 2006-08-01 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Not only did Russian missile sales dump but if you were an Islamic Psycho looking for secondary targets the Great Satan with its great distance, missile defense, and heavy handed responses isn't such a good target while the Lesser Satan with its slaughter of Chechnya, close distance, and no missile defense might be worth a launch or two.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-08-01 11:39|| 2006-08-01 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Angling to have more of Russia's oil revenues shoveled his way.

Posted by DoDo 2006-08-01 11:46|| 2006-08-01 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Russia has had, and still has, a potent missile defense system around Moscow, and the latest surface-to-air missiles were primarily designed to stop the threat of tactical missiles and cruise missiles. The Russian ABM ring around Moscow has some very LARGE missiles, all nuke-tipped. Russia just doesn't want the US to develop a missile defense system because it would tip the balance of power toward the west and away from Russia and China. Just a bunch of whining, kinda like the muzzies when Israel hits back.

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