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With the recent development of the US plans for a missile defense system did not go too well with Russia. |
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I totally missed that. Is there some news article you could link me to? |
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Yes, could you please post a link to an article? I think something somewhere is way exaggerated... |
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I think its just a case of Putin showboating and trying to draw attention away from how poorly his country is doing. |
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People sleep peacefully at night only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would do them harm. -George Orwell
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Russia never really stopped being communist. Their economy tanked for a while and they put up a nice show of saying they changed but they been back to their old ways a for a while now. Its not unexpected that they will try to show off some muscle whenever they think they have the upper hand. |
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A) Don't rocket shields brake some laws? Like no weapons-in-space-law thingy. If one country couldn't be retaliated against, that majorly upsets the balance in the world. |
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I think there was a treaty that specifically prohibited it. |
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I heard debates on the topic on TV yesterday. They were saying that these anti-missle defences mean nothing to Russia since, if they were to decide to fire missles at the US, they would send them over the North Pole so the defences placed west of them wouldn't be of any use. |
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Reminds me of a Megadeth song |
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Thats just splitting hairs as communists governments always turn fascist anyway. But yea your right, except they are already are fascists not becoming them. Whenever people start disappearing its a sure sign of that. |
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At my workplace, the radio is always tuned to NPR, and I've heard about this everyday since this stuff has been going on. Quite frankly, it sounds scary. |
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I agree with Merlock. Trust me guys.. I have a dual citizenship with Russia and America. I'd be pretty affected if this were serious. |
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Yeah, theres a treaty that restricted ABM during the cold war to ensure MAD and therefore the security of the world. I thnik it might have expired recently though... Bad news for the world >.< |
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I am dubious that the USSR ever REALLY went away. Putin is making his intentions pretty clear. China has demonstrated how Communism mixed with some level of capitalistic freedom can actually work in producing enough wealth to be sustained. With Russia's flat tax, their economy is booming right now while ours continues to carry the hideous burden of Marx's graduated tax. Russia sees an opportunity to do to us in cold war what we did to them in the 80's - collapse their economy. And unless something changes, they are probably right. |
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I don't think he is kidding. from what I have seen developing I myself would not hold my breather either. |
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Hmm, well i think russia at the moment are just bluffing about it and using it as a threat to get their point across, if this continues and america do nothing i can see Russia getting quite pissed off and doing something stupid like firing at the UK. I think this problem should be resolved now in the early stages instead of letting it escalate into another Cold War like some people say. |
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As I see things... the cold war never really went away... it merely took on a different form. Why? Because it's never that simple... you still see old tensions arise over certain things, and the same struggle still continues... its not a new cold war, its the same one, since it is still between the same adversaries. If anything, not much has progressed since then... so will we see another arm's race? Doubtful, but the possibility is there... all in all... it's just the US and Russia getting in a hissy about territorial pissings... something I just couldn't care less about.... |
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