Russia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2153418,00.html


This doesn't look good at all. A few days ago I mentioned that Putin had released a statement saying that Russia did not see Iran as a threat. Again, we just added the IRGC to our terrorist list. Also, as is briefly mentioned in this article, Russia has been trying to dissuade the Czech Republic from agreeing to aid our administration by allowing us to 'build' part of our missile shield on their territory.

The main article is about how Russia intends to once again become one of the top producers of aircraft; mainly military aircraft.

"The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, announced ambitious plans today to revive Russia's military power and restore its role as the world's leading producer of military aircraft."

" "Russia wants balance. It wants a strategic balance with the US," Ivan Safranchuk, a Moscow-based defense analyst told the Guardian.


"Russia wants to do this as cheaply as possible. But with the Bush administration withdrawing from arms control treaties, Russia is saying it is also ready to keep the balance at a high level of cost," he said. "

Are you seeing how bad this is? Russia is effectively not sitting still while we come into their back yard and set up a missile shield. Remember the Bay of Pigs? What was our response to them back then? Yes I understand that a missile shield now and their nuclear silos back then aren't the same thing. But, what about our arming one of our allies (Israel) over the next ten years combined with the missile shield? Yes, I know back then we weren't 'friends' but who's to say that we are now? And if so, by the looks of it it doesn't look like we will be for long.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!

The only comforsting factor about this whole situation is this:

" "I do not exclude that a new administration in the United States will re-evaluate the current administration's decisions on missile defence," he said, after a meeting in Moscow with the Czech defence minister, Martin Bartak (Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia's military chief of staff). "