Posted on 11/05/2008 5:00:14 AM PST by QenBirQeni
MOSCOW — In a wide-ranging attack on the United States as it elected a new president, the Russian leader Dmitri Medvedev warned on Wednesday that Moscow might deploy short-range missiles in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad to counter a perceived threat from a proposed American missile defense shield in eastern Europe.
His remarks, in his first state of the nation address since assuming the presidency in May, coincided with the election of Barack Obama and offered a chill glimpse into the potential issues and tensions confronting the new American leader when he takes office in January.
Mr. Medvedev did not specifically congratulate Mr. Obama on his victory, saying only that he hoped that “our partners _ the new U.S. administration _ will make a choice in favor of full-fledged relationship with Russia.”
At the same time, however, he spoke of a “new configuration for the military forces of our country” that would include abandoning plans to dismantle some missile regiments.
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Obama will take up the matter at the United Nations.
Here we are ! this is just the beginning, folks !
I’m not worried. We now have Joe Biden, who will no doubt be able to explain what this means. /sarc off
Bitter, exhausted laughter. Who had Russia in the pool? I took China, so I’m out.
Obama will “talk” them out of it - and give them the kitchen sink...
Right now, the world looks like one big playground to the Kremlin. The weaklings better run for cover.
Hey,Putin,stand-up!
Alfred E. Neubama won’t be saying, “What? Me Worry?” long.
Peace in our time!
But he’ll do it with courteousy, the love and respect of our Western European paltroons, and NO preconditions.
ah and so it starts by our enemies who wanted obama
so will the dumb ass Jewish voters please wake up
will the dumb ass college students please wake up
and will the ignorant dumb no nothing liberals leave this country
our enemies wanted your man for a reason, think about it
(Spew) Oh...my poor keyboard! lol
4 to 8 years from now a Republican will be elected to clean up the mess left behind, and repair the damage to our national defense.
whats happening here, every second line of text is obama. Isn’t our president Bush still in power for another 2.5 months? Everybody stop losing their grip, we are still in power, don’t push everything onto the new kids plate already! Theres still 2 months to go for anything GW wants to do!
“Bitter, exhausted laughter. Who had Russia in the pool? I took China, so I’m out”
We should have listened to that Khrushchev fellow “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you ... Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embassy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956”.
They fouled our fields with Pueraria lobata (Kudzo), yet we did nothing, because our yields were high, even after our yields began to decline we still did nothing to root out the invasive vine. Now our fields are choked with this cursed vine and our crops are threatened, what shall we do?
The Russian Great Game will be come Obama’s Great Trade.
The U.S. will retreat and disarm, while the New Soviet Union emerges.
China will be all over Taiwan by this time next year.
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