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Medvedev: Russia may target missile defense sites
ap ^ | 11-23-2011

Posted on 11/23/2011 6:00:15 AM PST by cutty

President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will aim its missiles at the U.S. missile defense sites in Europe if Washington fails to address Russian concerns on its missile defense plans.

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He also said ...that Moscow may opt out of the New Start arms control deal

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: iran; missledefense; reset; russia; start
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1 posted on 11/23/2011 6:00:16 AM PST by cutty
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To: cutty

All the more reason to build and deploy the missile shield.


2 posted on 11/23/2011 6:06:17 AM PST by TSgt ("Romney" means "rino cult" in Kenyan)
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To: cutty

Cold War Redux.

Here we go again...


3 posted on 11/23/2011 6:16:20 AM PST by moovova (Report my sarcastic, fear-mongering, hate-filled lies to www.AttackWatch.com by clicking HERE.)
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To: cutty

You mean Obama hasn’t given Dmitri the keys to the missile defense sites yet? Slacker!


4 posted on 11/23/2011 6:18:29 AM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. We have ideas-the Dems only have ideology.)
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To: cutty
And our answer? We have Barry to extend the hand of friendship weakness to Medvedev.




5 posted on 11/23/2011 6:20:23 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: TSgt
Weren't we told that “missile Defense” ie: “Star Wars” was an expensive pipe dream that could never be implemented.

Another in the long line of American Leftists lies designed to destabilize, undermine and otherwise weaken the USA.

6 posted on 11/23/2011 6:21:44 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Ping.


7 posted on 11/23/2011 6:22:25 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: moovova
"Cold War Redux."

Suddenly that "Reset" button makes sense....

8 posted on 11/23/2011 6:28:41 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: TigersEye

Ping.


9 posted on 11/23/2011 6:32:20 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: All

I remember it as clear as if it had happened yesterday...

In 1991, I was a young Corporal of Marines, stationed in the Marine Detachment on a US Navy carrier. We had a CIS DD (Gen Vinigrodov(SP)) from the Black Sea Fleet working with our battle group. One evening leaning in over the railing, watching the DD sail 1/4 mile off our port side, I made the comment to a crusty old Marine Gunnery Sgt. standing beside me, “Gunny, I never thought I’d see the day when the Russians worked along side us and were our friends.”

He took a drag off his cigarette, and without even looking at me matter of factly said, “Corporal, make no mistake about it, the Russians are still the Soviets, they aren’t our friends, and they never will be.” I was a little taken aback; it got me thinking, though.

That simple statement changed the way I viewed the world, and the United State’s place in it more than any other thing I’d heard or read, before or since. I am not just talking vi-a-vei the Soviets, either. It’s news articles like this one, and the last 20 years of world history that validate that crusty Gunny everyday.

Would that our leaders, all of them, not just the brain dead liberals, heed more closely the words of that man, our country, and world, would be a much safer and better place.


10 posted on 11/23/2011 6:34:53 AM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: cutty

I hope the russians bail out of the last so called arms control treaty, and forego further negotiations.


11 posted on 11/23/2011 6:34:59 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: FourPeas
...hand of friendship... = wrist of limpness
12 posted on 11/23/2011 6:44:40 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Rights begin where power ends!)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Suddenly that "Reset" button makes sense....

I was a little young to understand the Cuban Missle Crisis, but I grew up with the fears of "mutual assured destruction" and "global annihilation" brought on by the Cold War.

Reading that article this morning gave me a sense of deja vu.

13 posted on 11/23/2011 6:57:28 AM PST by moovova (Report my sarcastic, fear-mongering, hate-filled lies to www.AttackWatch.com by clicking HERE.)
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To: cutty

Madness


14 posted on 11/23/2011 7:07:25 AM PST by SQUID
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To: cutty
The Soviets wanted us to abandon SDI at Rekyavik because they knew we could achieve it. The Russian population is dwindling. Their conventional forces and military doctorine are outclassed. Conflicts since the Yom Kippur war have demonstrated that.

The only thing propping them up militarily is their nuclear weapons. Now that we have effectively achieved SDI, their old guard remnants are very nervous. They know we have the ability to negate their nuclear forces. They also know we have a fellow traveller as CiC.

15 posted on 11/23/2011 7:57:13 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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To: cutty

bump....


16 posted on 11/23/2011 8:22:38 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: cutty

Oh boy...are we having fun yet?


17 posted on 11/23/2011 8:23:36 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: moovova

It will be by the Grace of God...a cold war.


18 posted on 11/23/2011 8:25:12 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: cutty

Oooh, we’re so scared. Russia’s ICBM’s are so antiquated it takes 24 hours to spin them up and probably half of them will blow up in the silos. The UN inspectors are terrified of going into those silos to inspect them. They have some short range stuff that could hit Europe. Their nuclear subs are so bad we track them by the radioactive trail they leave. There is a reason Russia is not at war with anybody. They can’t afford it and they don’t have the weaponry. They are full of crapola and sadly we have a President who is easily bluffed. We should have already put that missile shield up in Poland.


19 posted on 11/23/2011 8:32:28 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

The topal missle is very dangerous and mobile. We need to be vigilant and never underestimate any opponent or potential threat IE china or russia.


20 posted on 11/23/2011 8:38:43 AM PST by MARKUSPRIME
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