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=$5 will get you $10 that Putin will soon develop another opinion.=

Accepted.

Russia and USA each already have enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world 5 times in a row. So 20000 MREVs will change absolutely nothing.

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"Russia and USA each already have enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world 5 times in a row. So 20000 MREVs will change absolutely nothing."

Russia opposes our star wars missile defense program, and would still have to match us missile for missile. The message is politrical rather then pratical. The question is: how many Moscow would like to be blown up over a power plant deal with Iran?

This move by Russia is not a return to the cold war; but, the sort of idiotic political brinkmanship that led to WWI. They would set up an opposing camp where the decision maker is none other then the lunatics in Iran.