[jb6]

Actually they don't give arms to Korea, well not north Korea. South Korea, however has several divisions of T-80Us facing off with N.Koreas T-62s. As for Iran, that's civilian nuke technology, it's our "ally" Pakistan who keeps giving them Chinese tech (formerly our tech until Clinton came to town) to the Iranians. There was an article posted today again underlying that fact.

Further, they helped us out with Afghanistan by directly arming the Northern Alliance that over threw the Taliban. A lot of those N.Alliance tanks came with slavic crews already inside.

Syria is another matter. That is dumb, plain, dumb, especially when those weapons are just as likely to end up in Chechnya as in Baghdad. They also arm the Israelies and provide Israel with most of its oil.

[JasonC]

Russia is signing arms deals with the Iranians as we speak to provide them air defense and naval attack capabilities in case of war with us. They gave Iran nukes and plan to give them enriched uranium fuel in the very near future, over US objections. They are deliberately creating nuclear proliferation threats around the periphery for the express purpose of undermining US power in the world, by trying to make it ungovernable. If we gave Chechen terrorists 20 portable nukes tomorrow, it would be no more than sauce for the gander. If Putin died tomorrow the world would be a dramatically safer place. He is a profoundly reckless and evil man, and you are stupid to defend his actions.

[Cronos]

Syria is another matter. That is dumb, plain, dumb, especially when those weapons are just as likely to end up in Chechnya as in Baghdad.

I doubt that -- Assad, for everything else he is, is still secular, the Syrian Christians are treated far, far better than Christians in Egypt and indeed anywhere else in theIslamci world.