Nuclear Strike on Russia without fear of Retaliation

[omygod]

Washington Post
Feb. 20, 2007

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that having the ability to shoot down Russian missiles could allow the United States to consider the possibility of a nuclear strike on Russia without fear of retaliation.

Lavrov said Moscow sees the establishment of the missile defense sites as a signal that the United States wants to gain nuclear superiority over Russia. He dismissed U.S. claims that it was to counter Iranian threats.

An increasingly angry dispute over U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Central Europe, the United States would build silos in Poland to hold interceptor rockets that could destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles. The accompanying radar system would be located in the Czech Republic.

Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, head of Russia's strategic missile forces, said Monday that Russia might train its missiles on Poland and the Czech Republic if they accept a U.S. proposal to base interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic.

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Tuesday that the Russian General Solovtsov's statement "was obviously an attempt at intimidation." Kaczynski said on Polish radio: "We are talking about the status of Poland and Russia's hopes that Poland will once again come under its sphere of influence."

Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg told the Reuters news agency in Warsaw that his nation would not give in to Russian "blackmail."

Relations between the United States and Russia had already taken a hit this month when Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at Washington for its unilateral approach. "The United States has overstepped its national borders in every way," Putin said. He also said U.S. plans for an antimissile system could upset the international balance of power. His remarks drew rebukes from the White House.

[C-Force]

Originally Posted by omygod

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Tuesday that the Russian General Solovtsov's statement "was obviously an attempt at intimidation." Kaczynski said on Polish radio: "We are talking about the status of Poland and Russia's hopes that Poland will once again come under its sphere of influence."

Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg told the Reuters news agency in Warsaw that his nation would not give in to Russian "blackmail."

That's not really blackmail. Poland and the Czechs obviously can't handle playing with the big boys.

[STritonE]

That is interesting, that the world needs to make from the USA that they have calmed down? How many it is possible to suffer such open aggression?
The administration of the USA in general does not have representations about morals, huh?

[C-Force]

Originally Posted by STritonE

That is interesting, that the world needs to make from the USA that they have calmed down? How many it is possible to suffer such open aggression?
The administration of the USA in general does not have representations about morals, huh?

There's a power vacuum in the world. The US and NATO can win a war against anyone, so who's going to stop them from doing what they want?

[omygod]

"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth in defense of our great nation." - President George W Bush in Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack

The Defense Department's plan is total military dominance of land, sea, air and outer space throughout this century. The 2008 war budget exceeds the combined military budgets of the rest of the world's nations. Washington's ever-expanding forces of war, combined with more than 750 major military bases around the world to secure America's economic and political empire.

Americans are enthralled with military power. The global supremacy that the US presently enjoys - and is bent on perpetuating - has become central to our national identify. Pentagon blueprints focusing first on America's high-tech plans for ground wars (Future Combat Systems), then nuclear wars (Complex 2030), and, following directly, space wars (the new National Space Policy).

A dramatic shift in the nuclear balance of power stems from a series of improvements in the United States' nuclear systems, the precipitous decline of Russia's arsenal. Russia will live in the shadow of US nuclear primacy for many years to come

According to the authoritative magazine Foreign Affairs (March/April 2006), "Today, for the first time in almost 50 years, the United States stands on the verge of attaining nuclear primacy. It will probably soon be possible for the United States to destroy the long-range nuclear arsenals of Russia with a first strike.

To ensure its ability to deliver a knockout blow with a first strike, the Bush administration is moving ahead with a so-called "defensive" anti-missile system intended to destroy any possible retaliatory blow from the few possible Russian nuclear weapons that were not destroyed in the initial US attack.

Russia is acutely aware that it is a potential target of a US attack.

[omygod]

Originally Posted by C-Force

Poland and the Czechs obviously can't handle playing with the big boys.

And Russia can't handle playing with THE big boy U.S.A.

[C-Force]

Originally Posted by omygod

And Russia can't handle playing with THE big boy U.S.A.

Russia isn't playing with the US, they are minding their own business.