Posted on 02/09/2007 10:51:50 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, chief of the Russian military's General Staff, said Russia now faces even greater military threats than during the Cold War and that the nation needs a new military doctrine to respond to these challenges, according to a speech posted on the Defense Ministry's Web site Friday.
"Russia's cooperation with the West on the basis of forming common or close strategic interests hasn't helped its military security," Baluyevsky said in the speech...
Baluyevsky referred to what he called "the U.S. military leadership's course aimed at maintaining its global leadership and expanding its economic, political and military presence in Russia's traditional zones of influence" as a top threat for Russia's national security.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reacted angrily to U.S. plans to deploy missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, saying Moscow doesn't trust U.S. claims they were aimed to counter missile threats from Iran and will take relevant countermeasures. Both countries are former Soviet satellites that became NATO members. ...
Amid growing distrust of U.S. intentions, Russia's lawmakers and commentators reacted nervously to comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates naming Russia as a potential threat.
"We don't know what's going to develop in places like Russia and China, in North Korea, in Iran and elsewhere," Gates told a House of Representatives committee meeting earlier this week, according to a Pentagon transcript.
The daily newspaper Gazeta on Friday said that Gates' statement could "go down to history books as a starting point for a new twist of the Cold War."
Viktor Ozerov, the head of the defense committee in Russia's upper house of parliament, said Gates' comments signaled "U.S. attempts to draw our nation into a new arms race," the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. "We will have to find an asymmetrical response."
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Looks like ole Commie Ivan is coming back in spades. I guess Putin better save all that arms cash he is making off of Iran....he will need it if he wants another arms race.
Turnabout is fair play.
I'm starting to appreciate Robert Gates.
Those nations listed are the "problem" regimes of the world. Im glad we are finally naming the enemies of the west.
Ping.
Must suck to be a Russian.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Just as the French always seem to turn out to be cowardly, the Russians inevitably turn out to be paranoid.
...the Russians inevitably turn out to be paranoid.
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Yes, a long time trait of Ivan.
U.S. expansion? Did someone show him the 53 star flag? I told you, do not let Putin see the 53 star flag until we raise it over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. We want the Baltic States to really be states.
Russia is part of the beast spoken of in Revelations during the last final, great world war in which 1/3 of mankind perishes. Russia did an about face with us on joint cooperation as soon as we interfered with Russia on the Ukraine issue during the Orange Revolution. I believe history will remember this as a huge mistake by the USA. It's a different world that Bush, Cheney and Donald Rumsfield are used to in how to spread democracy. Pushing further eastward using Nato is foolish. Truth is, the Internet is doing the job of pushing democracy for us now.
People all over the world truly see how we live and communicate with all of us about our opinions, way of life and they want IN. All we really have to do about Russia and China is be patient, the younger generation that have tasted some freedoms want democracy and will rule these countries in 20-30 years. The old commies with their stupid pride and ignorance will die off.
Unfortunately I believe it's too late to prevent the third world war. Our enemies believe us weak, terrorism is spreading, and our nation is divided over Iraq. Add to this our meddling in the Ukraine thing turning Russia into an enemy overnight and you now have a recipe for disaster.
See when you post garbage like that...no one takes your post seriously...
True. Some of the policies were rather shortsighted. I do not believe for a minute that the Russians or the Chinese will make good allies or come to the Western view of the world (in the East, they calculate - and the Chinese are more patient than the Russians, and therefore, more dangerous). The thing to remember is that they will only pursue their own interests. The argument for ignoring them is that sooner or later, those interests will be opposite to ours and any sort of alliance that may be in place will disintegrate. On the other hand, the same tactics may result in obstructionist politics from that corner of the world, and that would not be a welcome development.
Nobody with even a sitcom-only level of understanding of U.S. politics could make anybody believe that the U.S. is any threat to Russia.
Yeesh... we've got enough problems. What would we want with Russia?
I would trust none of them.
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