All I can say is, I hope blue cities get hit first.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/27/2009 12:43:31 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MINSK (Reuters) – The United States and Russia will sign a deal this year to cut vast Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons but may miss an early December deadline, a Kremlin source told Reuters on Friday.
Diplomats from the two biggest nuclear powers are trying to prepare a new agreement on cutting atomic weapons before the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expires on December 5.
The new accord will be signed "in a European country" in December, the Kremlin source told Reuters in Minsk, where President Dmitry Medvedev was meeting regional leaders.
"We may not be able to do it by December 5," said the Kremlin source, when asked about when the presidents would sign the deal. The source did not give a reason for the delay.
Presidents Barack Obama and Medvedev are both due to make visits in Europe in the next few weeks and diplomats say the two sides are trying to agree a time when the leaders can meet to sign the deal.
When asked about when the signing would take place, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov refused to give a date, saying the deal "will be signed in accordance with the orders of the presidents based on the timeframes set by them."
Obama and Medvedev said in a joint statement on April 1 that they intended to find a replacement for the deal by the time START-1 expired, a step the Kremlin and White House say will "reset" relations after the friction and rows of recent years.
"This treaty is a great move ahead and will improve relations between the United States and Russia," said Roland Timerbayev, a former Soviet ambassador and nuclear arms negotiator. He said it was too early to draw any conclusions about the significance of missing the December 5 deadline.
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Quick, Obama. Give it all away.
GIVE IT ALL AWAY.
Before they impeach your sorry ass, you traitor.
You can bet were gonna get the short end of this stick
um, I recall bush signed a nuclear arm argreement with russia to reduce nuclear weapons in half or something
i think this short of agreement usually involved US paying Russia to reduce their nuclear weapon and US getting the nuclear material for US nuclear power plants
To sign an agreement with Soviet Russian Communists is equivalent to tossing a coin and saying heads you win, tails I lose.
“Obama and Medvedev agreed in July to cut the number of deployed nuclear weapons by around a third from current levels to 1,500-1,675 each.”
They probably don’t have near that many that still work. The US will cut far more than one third in the name of unilateral disarmament if obama gets his way. We’ll still have more than enough, esp given our nukes’ accuracy (yes, that does matter even with nukes when striking hardened underground targets).
Still stupid. More anti-America betrayal by zero...
I think this is going to be worse. Much, much worse.
All I can say is, I hope blue cities get hit first.
All I can say is, I hope blue cities get hit first.
Stupid is as stupid does.
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