[EternalVigilance]

Obama just isn’t up to this.

[headstamp 2]

“The deployment of the RS-24 missiles, which have a detachable warhead, strengthens the military options of the Russian missile forces in overcoming missile defence systems.”

So basically they are threatening us with an offensive missile attack because we are deploying a missile defence system?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This is supposed to be a manouvering reentry vehicle. I guess the downside is reduced accuracy and payload. Current missile defense trackers and interceptors are predicated on a ballistic trajectory, i.e., a missile in free fall after deployment. A little manouver can greatly complicate the problems for the defenders. Of course, boost phase interception (with a space based defense) is probably the best solution. Too bad we aren’t gonna do it.

[TonyStark]

Somebody should tell the neo-Soviets that the major threat to Communism just up and killed itself on Nov. 4, 2008. They should save their money.

[Plane_Guy]

“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

— President Reagan on live radio, August 1984

[andy58-in-nh]

If the Russians were to launch an attack against our defensive missile bases, that would be an act of war, reasonably leading the US to launch a strike on Russian ICBM sites to prevent an offensive launch of their own. Failure to do so would be tantamount to surrender at best, and national suicide at worst. Does anyone think Obama would act in this event, or dither? Nothing to worry about here....

[ronnie raygun]

Anyone think we will be testing any new equipment in the next 4 years? The rats are getting thier white flags ready, we don’t have a chance if we don’t keep on top of this, and by the looks of things we won’t. A special early thanks goes out to congress, the senate and the peaceniks who think talking to the bully on the block will prevent him from getting a bloody nose. Talk to anyone from Brooklyn NY.

[HawaiianGecko]

I was in Jr. High when Kruchev parked a bunch of missiles in Cuba to test a young ideological president and contrary to popular Kennedy legend, Nikita got what he wanted.  The removal of the Mk4 RV's on the Jupiter platform stationed in Turkey.  This weapon system was on active duty with the USAF until the end of 1965, but Camelot legend says they were outdated in 1962 and were being scrapped anyway.  This is nonsense.  Less than nine years later I was building and targeting the ICBMs that replaced the Jupiter.  

I really hope this Obama guy has more nerve and backbone than he appears to have.

[The Duke]

...and hit targets on the Kamchatka Peninsula...

Some things never change.

[rbg81]

It kind of amazing to me that the Russians still see us as the major threat to them. This when the Chinese are encroaching on Eastern Siberia and they are getting demographically swamped by the Muslims in the West. I guess power plays against us make them feel important—or at least less impotent.

[jerry557]

The Russians are trying so hard to get someone’s attention.

The missile system is not designed to counter Russia’s arsenal. So this is meaningless.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Well, hell, did anyone get a good look at him after the ‘security briefing’? He changed to his ‘white half’. Sallow, indeed.

[Norman Bates]

This Country badly needs a mobile ICBM.

[PhilDragoo]

Putin tested with Georgia and found the Bush-Gates-Rice team full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

He found Hussein (who will not be funding any "unproven missile defense systems") responding with moral equivalence and a Chamberlinian slavering for talk-talk-talk.

Eurasia and Eastasia embrace ever more twiney-viney with arms deals as far as the eye can see--

--Taiwan, Ukraine, it was good to know ye.