Posted on 05/18/2011 3:05:24 PM PDT by Qbert
SKOLKOVO, Russia -- President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday warned of a new Cold War era if Russia and the West fail to agree on missile defense, in the first major news conference of his presidency.
Despite the startling warning to the United States and Europe, Medvedev confounded expectations he would use the event to finally announce if he intends to seek a new Kremlin mandate in 2012 elections.
Russia is increasingly worried about US plans to build missile defense facilities in ex-Communist eastern Europe and is also offended that NATO appears to have shunned its proposals for a joint missile defense shield.
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The Russian leader also reiterated an earlier threat to pull out of the new START disarmament agreement that entered into force this year if the missile shield is deployed and operated without the Kremlin's input.
"This would be a very bad scenario. It would be a scenario that throws us back into the Cold War era."
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We wouldn’t want that. I guess Obama will just have to give in to the Russians. Willingly.
Another cold war, eh?
Yeah, and who won that one, axxhole.
Bring it on. Meanwhile somewhere in America is another Ronald Reagan who will step up to shameless bullies.
Yep.
Apparently the rest of the world isn’t just rolling over because POTUS got OBL. Who knew? (/sarc)
Not kinetic, but energy weapons.
that's a game changer.
But didn’t Obama and the Dems, and rinos all say that the Russians didn’t have a problem with our missile defense? That we wouldn’t be constrained, even though the Russians were warning back before we even signed it? Why, would that mean we were lied to? By the same administration who sold us health care without death panels, without abortion and without higher costs and rationing?
I..I just don’t believe it... (s)
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