H/T to the Drudge Report....
Responding to the headline alone, it’s nice to see Medvedev finally catching-up to what Putin is doing.
There are some even here that can't even grasp the McFaul mission is the first military test of the new cold war. They don't see Poland, the Ukraine, and the former satellites as endangered.
Come November we might actually have a president who would surrender in the new cold war. At least that is what his naivete on the campaign trail would indicate (His promise to disarm nukes)
I think he said this morning he is ready to go to War,(no mention of cold) if poland installs the missile defense we want them to.
Russian threat to Nato supply route in Afghanistan
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Russia played a trump card in its strategic poker game with the West yesterday by threatening to suspend an agreement allowing Nato (sic) to take supplies and equipment to Afghanistan through Russia and Central Asia.
The agreement was struck at a Nato (sic) summit in April to provide an alternative supply route to the road between the Afghan capital and the Pakistani border, which has come under attack from militants on both sides of the frontier this year.
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Mr Kabulov also suggested that the stand-off over Georgia could lead Russia to review agreements allowing Nato (sic) members to use Russian airspace and to maintain bases in the former Soviet Central Asian states of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Let’s see - population less than half the U.S, and shrinking by 800M a year, GNP one tenth of the U.S., oil based economy while oil production is declining, military dependent on conscription and is little motivated (apart from chasing boy scouts in Georgia), infrastructure that is falling apart (well, yes, we have that problem too). These boys are so 19th century it boggles the mind- too bad they got nukes.
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I often think that we should have listened to Gen. Patton.
Putin will keep tensions high far as long as he can between East and West. I think he believes its job security. That’s one of the ways the last group of KGB Officers stayed in power for so long in the USSR.
I don’t like Russians, even those with American citizenships. It’s not that I don’t trust them, I don’t. It’s something about them that makes me think they’re always up to something.
Their testing the waters. If they see the American voter cares little for our national defense and votes the anointed one in, they will know they are back in the saddle. If the American voter vote for McCain mostly on defense issues, then they will be a bit more crafty as how they proceed in retaking their former satellites over. And of course either way if the oil/gas issues start to favor the conservative American base, they will understand their future limitations on just how much money they will be able to sink into rebuilding their defense arm. If the US went hog wild on oil/gas drilling we could potentially put them out of business in ten or twenty years.
Ridiculous title, trying to refer to the opening line of the communist manifesto no doubt, but "second time farce" applies.