Reports: Russia building anti-satellite weapons

SF Gate ^ | 3/5/09 | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

[WalterSkinner]

DH Bump!

[SunkenCiv]

Obama's recent pledge to seek a ban on space weapons drew a mixed reaction from experts in the field

Without a Reagan in office saying "trust, but verify", it's another DOA proposal from the Amateur Hour president.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, and thanks Ernest for the ping.

[Marine_Uncle]

I strongly sense Putin and his gang will toy with Zero for four years, to see how they can position themselves for the next ten or twenty. Of course if a man like Duncan Hunter where to run and become POTUS in 2012, things could yet be reversed back to favor the USA. That is, if there is any money left in the coffers by that period of time.

[AdmSmith]

The ruble has slumped 35 percent against the dollar since July 4, compared with a 68 percent slide in the price of Urals crude, the country’s chief export blend, from a record $142.94.





The foreign reserves:


Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said the inflation rate could be as high as 14 percent this year, compared with 13.3 percent in 2008, as import prices rise and the government stimulates the economy by running a budget deficit equal to 8 percent of gross domestic product, its first in 10 years.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1009/42/375116.htm

In February the inflation was 13.9 %. The Russian government is betting that the world economy will improve in a few months. However, that is a futile assumption and the corruption, bad loans and bad banks will cause a further economic meltdown in Russia. The question is if they will divert the domestic problem with attacks on Georgia and Ukraine?

[Lukasz]

This is amazing how bad politic is realized by Kremlin. They don’t really need to pretend how great democrats they are, because this is not a problem for Russian people. Yet they are still unable to take advantage from this situation. I guess this is some incredible lack of economic education.