More on strategic defense
Posted by Ron Coleman on April 11, 2007
Analysts said there was a common feeling in Russia that the US had reneged on an agreement after the collapse of the Soviet Union to abandon cold war politics. “Cold war thinking has prevailed, especially on the western side,” Yevgeny Myasnikov, a senior research scientist at Moscow’s Centre for Arms Control, told the Guardian. “Russia has been deeply disappointed by what has happened after 1991. Nato started to expand, and the US started to think it had won the cold war. We had hoped for a partnership. But it didn’t happen.”
Imagine, the US thinking it had won the Cold War, just because the other side ceased to exist. And then refusing a partnership with the remnants of the side that lost — you know, the side that votes against every US proposal at the UN and that is rebuilding its own military dictatorship while murdering opponents on the streets all around the world.
Deeply disappointing!
hydralisk said
The US doesn’t wage cold wars or any kind of wars with liberal democratic states which share the same basic interests, and selling nuclear components to dangerous, despotic regimes like Iran is not one of them. Russia should put that in its pipe and smoke it.
Gwedd said
Ron,
As a veteran of those cold wars, i find it amusing how the Russian government has simply cloaked the old Soviet system with a veneer of democracy. Putin wants more time in office, but the new consitution won’t let him, so what to do? What to do?
Why, I know! Have the politbur, er, the parliament vote to “modify” the law so that Putin can run again.
Man, who woulda thought the Russians could’ve learned so much from our old Gangster movies, eh?
Reminds me of that song by “The Who”: “We Don’t get Fooled Again”…
Yea right…. hold that thought.