Posted on 11/11/2010 7:23:45 AM PST by FreeAtlanta
BRUSSELS-- Russia is expected to let NATO take armoured vehicles to Afghanistan through its territory under an expanded transit deal that would reduce reliance on more risky routes in Pakistan.[...]...frpa
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What did we have to give Russia in return for this?
Probably just the one thing Putin asked for in the beginning: to suppress the drug trade.
Giving up our own domestic oil drilling was a start. They will make trillions more on their oil drilling because of this. BTW, don’t they get their oil along the same latitude as ANWR?
At what price? The Russians don’t just “let” these things happen. They get something in return.
Didn’t the Afghans grant the British safe passage through the Khyber Pass?
What did we have to give Russia in return for this?
Well let’s hope it’s not what we gave Russia when its people and govt were being destroyed. A whole lot of support to the bolsheviki.
“I am in sympathy with the Soviet form of government as that best suited for the Russian people...”
Letter to President Woodrow Wilson (October 17, 1918) from William Lawrence Saunders, chairman, Ingersoll-Rand Corp.; director, American International Corp.; and deputy chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
And that paragon of virtue Woodrow Wilson — the fairy godmother — who provided Trotsky with a passport to return to Russia to “carry forward” the revolution.
We’re probably on tap now to help them stop the Chicom invasion of Siberia. - After all the PLA is still the biggest army in the world, and it’s equipment has been getting modernized for years. China will use that Army someday, and I don’t see 2 million Chinese crossing the Pacific to invade Mexico.
The US cannot even stop a Chicom Sub from firing a missle off our coast. The Russians are in trouble if they depend on us.
They have a “Moslem Problem” too, after all.
The Chicom’s destination is the United States. And so is Russia’s. Both China and Russia want us to bleed in Afghanistan. There have even been some allegations about Russia and China helping out elements of the Taliban from time to time.
Russian admirals testing out new Buvala missile...
Taliban kill 18 in suicide assault on police headquarters in Karachi
We are at the most perilous time since Carter was in office.
I know, Clinton lost the launch codes and would probably have delayed until it was too late to retaliate had we been attacked, but Russia and China were very weak at that time. That isn't the case now.
Russia is expected to let NATO take armoured vehicles to Afghanistan through its territory under an expanded transit deal that would reduce reliance on more risky routes in Pakistan.It's a real tribute to Central Asia that relying on the Russians is the better plan. Thanks Ernest.
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