President Putin rattles nuclear sabre at Nato

President Putin accused Nato yesterday of threatening Russia’s security and ordered the military to place the country’s strategic nuclear arsenal on a higher state of alert.

“In violation of previous agreements, certain member countries of the Nato alliance are increasing their resources next to our borders,” Mr Putin told generals in a meeting broadcast on state television. “Russia cannot remain indifferent to this obvious muscle-flexing.”

Mr Putin, whose rhetoric has become more strident as relations with the West have deteriorated, went on: “One of the most important tasks remains raising the combat readiness of the strategic nuclear forces. They should be ready to deliver a quick and adequate reply to any aggressor.”

He issued his stark message as Russia confirmed that it would pull out of a landmark arms limitation treaty on December 12. The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty was fundamental to ending the Cold War.

“Russia, as far as I know, is helping them build a nuclear power plant, not a bomb.”

Ummm, yeah a Plutonium reactor. Considering China via Pakistan/North Korea proliferated the nuclear designs for a bomb to ME countries, including Iran the only real thing a country needs now is the nuclear material itself.

Remember a couple weeks ago where Iran gave the IAE the blueprints as a show of faith they were willing to negotiate? Worthless paper now, I can find these designs if I really wanted to. They are everywhere now.

The damage Bill Clinton did by allowing Chinese espionage at Los Alamos will someday resurface and probably not in a pretty way.

There was this little thing going on for about four years where Iran was supposed to ship Russia the spent nuclear material but ahhh so funny, the Russians claimed they didn’t get paid so the Iranians kept the nuclear material. Then the Iranians were pissed because it appeared Russia had sold them an inferior air defense system as we saw with the recent North Korea/Syrian incident.

At this point, Russia had a big choice and made it a month ago and that was full steam ahead to assist Iran in finishing up this this reactor.

I am not simply afraid of the Russians. I am afraid of the Frankenstein monster they have and are continuing to create with Iran. The Russians always seem to feel masters at chess and likely feel they can keep the lid on the Iranians behavior. THAT is what makes me nervous just to boil it all down.

HAHAH. Your an optimist. I like that! Consider those words, ‘pending the resolution of the nuclear material problem’. Iran has the material it needs guy ALREADY. I will not say any more.

We need to waive our advanced technology in the Russians face such as a missle shield or lasers on the moon if needs be as a bartering chit to chain there little pet. President Reagan had the right idea all along.

Or else Frankestein may just decide to start WWIII on it’s own. What pray-tell would be the result of Iran detonating one nuclear weapon on Israeli soil? Even if the conflict stayed regional we the USA will support our allies and so will the Russians. Problem is, Russia’s economy will fare much better then ours considering they have there own supply of oil and we DONT.

In the last 100 years, history has demonstrated global conflict when national powers running fiat currency goes down in flames. Getting the picture?

You started off by saying I have nutty ideas. Well color me stupid but I would rather fashion our nation around the idea of peace through strength, that these deadly games carry the harshest of consequences for those who continue to promote them. So yes, if the Russians help ignite WWIII by being irresponsible I say our country would have to go ALL THE WAY and make sure such an irresponsible culture never gets to rear it’s foolish ugly head on this earth, ever again. Remember WWII? We occupied those nations for decades. That lesson seems to be lost in this era of leaders and those that refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

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