Posted on 04/19/2014 10:57:58 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Gov. Mike Pence (R., Ind.) on Wednesday declared the “reset” of U.S.-Russian relations a failure and called for the construction of a European missile defense shield to deter Russian aggression.
“With Russian aggression on the rise again, it is clear that our policy of conciliatory diplomacy has failed, Pence said at a Friends of Indiana reception in Berlin, Germany.
“While new sanctions are of some value, in the interest of our alliance, I believe the United States and the EU must respond with deeds more than words to strengthen our economic and strategic defenses,” Pence added.
Pence then called for the deployment of a “robust missile defense” for all of Europe.
“With continued instability in the Middle East, and Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, I believe we must take immediate steps to strengthen our mutual security by deploying a robust missile defense in all of Europe – including Poland and the Czech Republic – to protect the interests of our NATO allies and the United States in the region,” he said.
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Um that’s a good thing to pay attention to, but what about our 318 trillion a year trade deficit with Communist China?
Hmm?
Has anyone looked at the world’s military budgets recently?
By country? I believe China’s is number two now. And we are wildly continuing to send American business there.
2016?
Don't these pols even know how fed up most US citizens are with global warfare and meddling while the US is falling apart from within?
Pence/Cruz 2016 ?
Thank goodness Indiana gor rid of traitor Rino Dick Wad Lugar in that respect.
Putin hates robust missile defense.
Furher, we still outspend #2-9 combined
What is REALLY weird is the rest of the list:
1. $ 650 Billion - US (330m population)
2. $ 188 Billion - China (1,300m)
3. $ 88B - Russia (145m)
4. $ 67B - Saudi Arabia (30m)
5. $ 61B - France (65m)
6. $ 57B - UK (63m)
7. $ 49B - Germany (80m)
8. $ 48B - Japan (127m)
9. $ 47B - India (1,200m)
10.$34B - South Korea (50m)
Little Saudi Arabia all the way in the top 4??? Doubling South Korea's spending with half the population, and not bordering a nuclear-armed psychotic dictator, nor the Big Brother with clear aims on world-supremacy-status. Hmmm...
SMH!
Trying to build some FB credibility? Consistent with a guy who wants to run for President.
He’s on my list of possibilities.
Really? Making a Reagan-esque request for missiles to contain Russian aggression disqualifies him for you? That he makes a statement about A and not about B disqualifies him? You know, he also didn't discuss abortion, the budget, or tort reform in that statement. Clearly, he is unfit to lead if he can't work every topic into every sentence.
SMH
I’m just saying, we need to pay a whole lot more attention to China.
China is currently second in the entire globe, in military budget. And there’s a whole lot in China’s economy which isn’t included in that budget, but which undoubtedly benefits them that way.
China is in my opinion a (huge) threat as things currently stand.
China runs a massive trade surplus, Americans cannot truly invest in China (while Chinese can invest in America) and we buy a massive amount of things every single day, from there.
We seem completely asleep about China as a threat.
That is completely irresponsible.
Completely so. We need to bring back businesses to America, and stop sending jobs to China.
Now.
If Ukraine’s situation is worth mentioning and the assault on US citizens by the BLM is not, his priorities are askew. I don’t agree that we should be involved in the European situation at all. Let Europe figure it out.
The biggest threat to American freedom, security and financial health is mincing around in the White House, not parading around in the Kremlin.
That is not weird at all. The Saudis are scared to death of Iran. And they (SA) have the money.
It is pretty clear that Saudi Arabia does not believe U.S. protection and will is what it once was. Of course, this development also means Saudi is no longer under any obligation to assist the West with energy policy (such as by cranking open the spigots to counter Russia, or simply even out price spikes during crises.)
Saudi Arabia is also pretty much committed to not exporting lots of natural gas, instead developing their reserves slowly, and what is developed is for their internal consumption, especially an in-country petro-chemical industry. That’s a very smart long term plan, from their standpoint.
The next logical move, assuming Iran gets nukes, and given U.S. weakness / growing isolationism, will be for the Saudis to acquire nuclear weapons also.
(According to an article I saw the other day, it is believed 35-40 presently non-nuclear countries around the world are capable of developing nukes.)
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