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Republican_Man
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 Tue May 29, 2007 4:50 pm Russia Test-Launches New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
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| Quote: | Russia Test-Launches New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
MOSCOW � Russia on Tuesday test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple independent warheads, and a top government official said it could penetrate any defense system, a news agency reported.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276014,00.html |
This is another example of Putin just asserting his strength, and in quite a way. This worries me. Does anyone sense a second Cold War brewing?
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Arellia
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I thought this was quite interesting. New Cold War... well... would someone enlighten me as to what the cold war really was? I always think of it as intelligence-based, since the last cold war really didn't amount to a lot of fighting. As for the missile itself, I don't think it's something that ought be over-hyped. No one's going to launch a missile like that, unless they're totally out of their minds. Even if one was launched, they should know that every powerful nation--France, Britain, Germany, the US, Australia, etc.--would unite against them and crush them be it politically or militarily. No matter who the missile was launched against. Just to be realistic.
This is less of a problem for terrorists, so I'm not saying a major missile attack will never happen, or never happen repeatedly. But a nation going against a nation like that would be an entirely different story.
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WeAz
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| Tue May 29, 2007 5:56 pm |
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Another nuclear arms race perhaps?
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squiggy
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| Tue May 29, 2007 9:13 pm |
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Yes! You see the soviet master plan now! Ve vill take over the vorld using a secret base in canada!....vait... ve are not supposed to tell you of this. DOH!.
...anyways, yeah. It's kinda disturbing...
More like... suicidal. Bush is gonna retaliate... I just know it.
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Republican_Man
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Uh-oh.
| Quote: | Putin: U.S. Missile Defense Plans Would Force Russia to Target Europe
ROME � Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Moscow to target its weapons against Europe.
The threat, in an interview published Sunday in Italy's Corriere della Sera and other foreign media, marked one of Putin's most strident statements to date against the U.S. plans and came just days before he is to join President Bush and other leaders at a Group of Eight summit in Germany.
In the interview, Putin was asked whether the proposed missile defense shield would compel Moscow to direct its own missiles at locations and U.S. military sites in Europe, as during the Cold War.
"If the American nuclear potential grows in European territory, we have to give ourselves new targets in Europe," Putin said, according to Corriere. "It is up to our military to define these targets, in addition to defining the choice between ballistic and cruise missiles."
Russia has not overtly targeted Europe since agreeing after the fall of the Soviet Union not to direct missiles against specific countries, according to Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent military analyst based in Moscow. He added however, that that was simple technical matter, since a missile can be given a target within minutes.
Read more at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277492,00.html |
I wonder where this is headed. Sounds really reminiscent of the Cold War to me.
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| Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:42 pm |
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It is ze soviet re-birth!
Nah, it's just putin over-compensating for something, I'll bet.
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