[truthguy]

The Russians have to be among the strangest people on the planet. Winston Churchill said something like this...”Soviet Union(Russian) foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma”...
I cannot for the life of me understand what they fear about a missile shield. We cannot seem to convince them that this shield would benefit them. They were even invited to join in the technology.
Can't these people figure out that the cold war is over and that their future has to be in the West? What is it with these people. They are a dying country and their only future lies in close cooperation with Europe and the United States. Does anyone out there understand what makes these people tick?

[iThinkBig]

Paranoia is in the genes.

[redstateconfidential]

truthguy wrote:
The Russians have to be among the strangest people on the planet.”
So you’ve met there women?

[eleni121]

Churchill may not have understood because he did not know Russian history well. Russis has been invaded many many times and their people slaughtered and oppressed.

But about this latest chess move: Unfortunately the US is moving away from “deterrence” posture and moving into a “compellence” posture. Not a good idea and stupid too.

“These European ABMs are an adjunct to the longstanding US policy of nuclear first strike against Russia, ...” (Professor Francis Boyle, Global Research, June 2007)

This is very dangerous thinking on the part of this administration.

We should be working more cloasely with the Russians not jousting with them. I do not think many Americans take seriously the menace from the islamic world...Russians do.

[piasa]

Does anyone out there understand what makes these people tick?

Vodka.