[sport]

I also believe that he is sending a message to the Nations that are agreeing to have the abm system installed. [To Wit] The United States will not protect you. When we decide to come after you, you will be on your own.

I intentionally omitted NATO because without the United States, NATO could not whip a Troop of Girl Scouts.

This was , again, in my opinion, not a spur of the moment decision on Putin’s part. He has been planning this for months.

A lot is at stake here.

[Arkinsaw]

I intentionally omitted NATO because without the United States, NATO could not whip a Troop of Girl Scouts.

I personally think that NATO without the US would wipe the floor with Russia on defense. Russia has nukes, but I think their conventional forces would be about twice as good as Saddam Hussein's forces which is not saying much. Putin has a good Wizard of Oz impersonation going but he still can't defend something the size of Russia with that army. Russian demographics are terrible also. Not sure they want to really lose a generation of men.

I would predict that NATO would blow up a whole lot of rusty crap in event of a war with Russia.

Putin is just another bully.