US and Russia on verge of deal over oil and missiles

The Independent ^ | Oct 20, 2001 | RUPERT CORNWELL

[CommiesOut]

Uh oh... Bad news for our M.E. friends. All of them.
Now they have to provoke something even more sinister.
Bumpy ride ahead.

[CommiesOut]

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[seeker41]

I would love to get out of the old Saudi oil blackmail scheme even if it meant getting some of our supply from our new friend the Russian Federation of States. I want to see the arabs eat sand for about 1,000 years!

[Free the USA]

bump

[Diddle E. Squat]

Colin Powell declares: "I believe it is peace in our time."

[Shermy]

Yep, here it comes a new "Northern Alliance" circling the globe: North America-Europe-Russia. I sense a new alignment in the world coming based on a Containment strategy we used against "communism" (do we care about that -ism much any more?). The containment target is moslems and their nations, kind of a Caliphate OBL dreamed of, or Islamism. Due to borders, internal minorities, and desire to keep the world economy sttable the "containers," or "allies" if you will, will be the core areas of North America, Europe, Russia, China and India, with periphery partners like Japan.

I wish I could find it again, but I read an article by a Lebanese intellectual warning Arabs that this whole mess has put the USA and Russia together, implying that the Arabs could no longer play off the two. They may be getting more than that...

[SirAllen]

In return, America seems ready to embark on massive cuts in its nuclear arsenal, for which Moscow has long been pressing.

No!!! I love my nukes. We need more, not less. Russia still has almost 2:1 ratio over us.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Russian ICBM's are usless even if they could afford them. Addict America to cheap Caspian sea oil and watch middle east fade back into the dessert. Nuclear war is for suckers, energy supplies rule!

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks for the post!

[Lady In Blue]

Bump

[Dosa26]

No!!! I love my nukes. We need more, not less. Russia still has almost 2:1 ratio over us

As do I...However I think that we probably have something better by now, Nukes are so 1940's.

[Faraday]

Bump.

[madrussian]

Yeah, looks like Israel is quickly losing its significance. Bummer.

[Billy_bob_bob]

As I understand it, atomic weapons need a great deal of care and feeding to keep them in prime working order. They aren't something that you can build and then just put on a shelf for storage. However, I'm no expert in this field and I will gladly defer to the opinion of anyone who has more knowlege.

However, if I am correct in my assumptions, then there is a fair question as to just how much of the Russian arsenel is actually useable, with a fair chance that most of it has fallen into disrepair.

[america-rules]

It's looking like Saudi Araba and Egypt will end up like the Afgans - poor and with wacko muslems in control?

[CommiesOut]

Now, who will provoke what? Any ideas?

[Crispy]

I think Bush and Putin have a secret plan that they are unleashing on us one step at a time. This can only mean good things with our fight with terrorism.

[paul51]

Yup. I like it.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Hardly, If this were true and we could reduce or eliminate our dependence on middle east oil we could take the moral high road and completely support Israel, the only democracy with any civil rights in the mid-east. Buh-Bye terrorists.