The government is calling for more money to be spent on developing new ICBMs. This is because the Russian fear of American technology takes it as fact that U.S. anti-missile defenses will, otherwise, eventually render Russian missiles useless. While this is ability is not generally accepted in the West, in Russia there are many who believe that the Americans are out to neutralize Russian ICBMs, thus eliminating the only leverage Russia has to stop America from "doing whatever it wants." But it's difficult getting more money for new missiles, when the rest of the armed forces are falling apart because...