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CCIP · 05-31-07, 08:01 PM

I don't quite follow the title of the thread. The US wants to install stuff at Russia's back door and wants Putin to be all happy about it? Or blame someone else - like who, Canada?

I think the guy made a good and rational response. If the US is developing new missile technology, updating their own is certainly a fair move. The US wants strategic security, Russia wants strategic security.

Or is this one of the cases of "What is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to a bull?" :hmm:

PS - is anyone actually naive enough to believe that the US is setting up defenses against Iran and North Korea (and not Russia) in Eastern Europe? Don't they have friendly bases a little closer to the 'axis of evil', like, say, Iraq/Kuwait/Saudi Arabia/Turkey or Japan/South Korea, or even Tajikistan for crying out loud? Makes no sense to me. If nothing else, they should at least say the truth - I think anyone who thinks the US doesn't have reservations about Russian strategic interests and is not seriously considering Russia in its strategic deterrent plans is fooling themselves.

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CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I don't quite follow the title of the thread. The US wants to install stuff at Russia's back door and wants Putin to be all happy about it? Or blame someone else - like who, Canada? I think the guy made a good and rational response. If the US is developing new missile technology, updating their own is certainly a fair move. The US wants strategic security, Russia wants strategic security. Or is this one of the cases of "What is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to a bull?" :hmm: PS - is anyone actually naive enough to believe that the US is setting up defenses against Iran and North Korea (and not Russia) in Eastern Europe? Don't they have friendly bases a little closer to the 'axis of evil', like, say, Iraq/Kuwait/Saudi Arabia/Turkey or Japan/South Korea, or even Tajikistan for crying out loud? Makes no sense to me. If nothing else, they should at least say the truth - I think anyone who thinks the US doesn't have reservations about Russian strategic interests and is not seriously considering Russia in its strategic deterrent plans is fooling themselves. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)