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2008-08-16 Europe

Russia Threatens Nuclear ATTACK on Poland! (Telegraph also TimesOnline)

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Posted by 3dc 2008-08-16 00:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 ION COUNTERRTERRORISM BLOG > MARANAO THREATENS "JIHAD" OVER DEAL WITH MILF MOROS [ iff scrapped] + SITUATION IN THE SOUTH REMAINS HIGHLY VOLATILE/UNSTABLE.

Also from CT > INDONESIA STILL THREATENED BY TERRORISM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-16 00:46|| 2008-08-16 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 BIGNEWSNETWORK > PHILIPINES - HUNGRY FOR RICE, UNWILLING TO INVEST; + COMMUNIST LEADER -MOA/MOU FOR ANCESTRAL DOMAIN [ancestral homeland] MEANT TO FAIL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-16 00:59|| 2008-08-16 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 BIGNEWSNETWORK > NATO WILL CONSIDER
"CONSEQUENCES" OF RUSSIA'S ACTIONS IN GEORGIA IN NEXT/UPCOMING NATO MEETING [+ LT NATO-Russ Relationship].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-16 01:10|| 2008-08-16 01:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Better triple the # of warheads.

Posted by .5MT 2008-08-16 08:23|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-08-16 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Like Poland hasn't been a target since it left the puppet strings of the Soviet Union? This time the Russians don't have a militaristic Germany to do their dirty work for them and the Poles aren't going to be a push over either. So the only threat Moscow has is nukes. Russian nuance.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-16 08:49|| 2008-08-16 08:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Oil addles the brain. Russia needs a course in anger management.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-08-16 09:08|| 2008-08-16 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Tell me please, when were the Poles NOT on a Russian hit list? Take vodka sabatical tomorrow general and make a DELTA DENTAL visit.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-16 09:48|| 2008-08-16 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 The US should make it clear to Bellorussia that if Russian tank columns pass through their territory they will be considered a belligerent and treated harshly.

Russia would not resort to nukes. This is blustery nonsense said by a general rather than Putin to give it deniability later.

If Russia had any brains they would start on a massive birth program to stop their declining numbers. If they had any brains they'd make friends with Europe and provide the balls the Europeans need in exchange for the civilization and markets the Europeans have to spare. Russia needs to move beyond Putin.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-16 10:22|| 2008-08-16 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 It's the old fable about the frog and the scorpion.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-16 10:44|| 2008-08-16 10:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Poland is a NATO country. Wouldn't russian attack require NATO military response?
This is the same shit loons like Kimmie and Dinnerjacket pull.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-16 11:19|| 2008-08-16 11:19|| Front Page Top

#11 The Russians are trying to (a) break nato (b) Scare peaceniks into hampering the policies of NATO countries.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-16 11:40|| 2008-08-16 11:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Russia may be flush with petrodollars right now, but they have big, big, long term problems with population. Even the Chinese are eying russian territory, I don't understand why they pick now, and there, to make their play. They don't seem to have a plan, other than being a pain in the ass. Their military eq. looks like the same shit they had back before 91 to me. Their soldiers are half enlisted, half irregulars. Dangerous yes, but not the army of a superpower. I can't believe that their nuke arsenal has been maintained in any better of a manner than their army, or navy.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-16 12:37|| 2008-08-16 12:37|| Front Page Top

#13 This is the same old crap that the Russians pull every few years whether they are ruled by a Czar, a Politburo, or a President : go ape shit on one of their smaller neighbors, loot & pillage & plunder, and then install a puppet government. The Russians have demonstrated that they are nothing more than barbarians in the "Near Abroad" for the past 400 years.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-08-16 20:51|| 2008-08-16 20:51|| Front Page Top

#14 so heres my question - is Ukraine defensible? Looks to me like their border with the Russians is too long, and few natural obstacles. What do they do if attacked?

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-08-16 23:15|| 2008-08-16 23:15|| Front Page Top

#15 My opinion might be the wrong one but - jam their machines -take out the birds.....

Posted by lnker 2008-08-16 23:22|| 2008-08-16 23:22|| Front Page Top

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