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Top Russian general calls U.S. expansion top national security threat
AP ^ | February 9, 2007

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gates; geopolitics; iran; russia
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To: quantfive
Russia is part of the beast spoken of in Revelations

...or maybe not. You forgot that part. :-)

21 posted on 02/09/2007 1:42:37 PM PST by Ramius ([sip])
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To: unkus
Indeed. The more correct way of putting it would probably be I'd sooner distrust the Russkies less...'
22 posted on 02/09/2007 1:46:24 PM PST by aliquis
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Ah, the Russian bear, nothing has changed - feels almost too good to be true.


23 posted on 02/09/2007 2:29:01 PM PST by Sword_Svalbardt (Sword Svalbardt)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hey Putin, if you and your good buddies in Tehran and Damascus want to question our resolve, I think you should watch this video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDecLiA_Qbw



24 posted on 02/09/2007 3:10:34 PM PST by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Where's cAP'N Obvious?


25 posted on 02/09/2007 4:22:18 PM PST by rfp1234 (Custom-built for Bill Clinton: the new Toyota Priapus.)
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To: AdmSmith
There is no strict boundary there between special services and foreign ministry which has always been their preserve anyway. Just like the personnel of, say, their Washington embassy are [or a majority of them is] kgb placemen on a "civilian" foreign ministry payroll, so it is for the home-based aspects. Organizationally similar situation can be observed here, but on a different scale, with active duty generals or admirals being placed to head major nominally civilian parts of the security establishment - say, the NSA.
26 posted on 02/09/2007 5:03:01 PM PST by GSlob
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Top Russian General? Whats that mean these days? He gets two bucks off at Six Flags on Mondays if he wears full dress uniform?

Or maybe he dusts off the uniform and rents a grinder and a monkey. /sarc

27 posted on 02/09/2007 6:15:37 PM PST by libs_kma (Monica blew while Al-Queda grew.....Oh well, Clinton happens!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The United States has total power and Russia has nothing to worry about. What is it with these Russians? Must be a cultural paranoia.


30 posted on 02/09/2007 10:01:55 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo (If the Moon wasn't there, people would have traveled to Mars by now.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They can't afford a toilet to c**p in.

How are they going to do anything but bluster?


31 posted on 02/09/2007 10:02:16 PM PST by Prost1 (Fair and Unbiased as always!)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Guess this means we made Russia's list as well. :)

Reciprocity...


32 posted on 02/10/2007 5:15:16 AM PST by Donna Lee Nardo (DEATH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AND ANIMAL AND CHILD ABUSERS.)
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To: quantfive
All we really have to do about Russia and China is be patient

...and build a new generation of ICBMs, fully implement our missile defense systems, produce another thousand F-22s, field another 100 or so mechanized divisions, and get back up to a thousand-ship Navy with a preponderance on attack boats, amphibious assault support, and heavy sealift capability.

That, and patience.
33 posted on 02/10/2007 8:15:50 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU HAVE NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. Actually, you lack even a legitimate excuse.)
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To: Donna Lee Nardo

Not sure what it means, except the fighting is becoming more open now.


34 posted on 02/10/2007 10:33:50 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)
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To: aliquis

"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."

Good points.


35 posted on 02/12/2007 9:31:38 AM PST by quantfive
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To: snowrip

"and build a new generation of ICBMs, fully implement our missile defense systems, produce another thousand F-22s, field another 100 or so mechanized divisions, and get back up to a thousand-ship Navy with a preponderance on attack boats, amphibious assault support, and heavy sealift capability.

That, and patience."

National defense is always a necessity so goes without saying. By being patient, I am referring to our foreign policy of funding democracies that begin encroaching on Russia and China's national borders. In the past, this was par for the course and both sides did this aggressively. My point is that we no longer have to fund such efforts, the Internet is doing that job for us.


36 posted on 02/12/2007 9:34:32 AM PST by quantfive
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