Posted on 01/03/2007 12:00:04 AM PST by DTAD
Controversial Russian contracts to sell anti-aircraft weapons to Syria and Iran are being fulfilled on schedule, Russian news agencies cited defense and industry officials as saying Jan. 2.
(Excerpt) Read more at defencetalk.com ...
Seems they make a special point to sell to enemies of the U.S. and Israel.
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I agree. Putin's Russia is becoming bolder and more in-your-face than even the Soviet Union of Brezhnev (and, in quick succession), Andropov and Chernenko. Even Khrushchev's provocations--I am thinking now of his placing missiles just a few miles off the Florida Keys--do not seem a great deal more reckless than the actions of Putin & Co., in supplying weapons and "peaceful" nuclear reactors to our enemies.
At some point, it may be prudent to cut off all diplomatic ties with the new Russia. Perhaps if we were to withdraw our ambassador from Moscow and remove theirs from Washington--in short, treat them as a genuine pariah state--we might get their attention.
"It's defense systems only. (C)"
I heard it somewhere. 8)
USA sell and build defense systems, RF want to do it too.
All empires start to play into the old games and only.
"Good luck" to them on getting paid - same as with Saddam, they'll have to eat that cost.
After regime change in Iran, Iran's "terror welfare recipients" in ME (Syria and other non-state losers like Hezbollah, Hamas et al) will be left without financial and logistical and geopolitical support... and it will be the end of the last "Russia-France axis" client-state in the ME they can sell military equipment to.
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