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The Open Hand Meets The Nuclear Fist
Dean's World —
... a preventive nuclear strike against the aggressor.”
What’s more, Patrushev said, Russia is revising the rules for the employment of nukes to repel conventionally armed attackers, “not only in large-scale, but also in a regional and even a local war.”
This is what we mean, lefties, when we say you’re dangerously naive.
“But… but… but… at least we’re getting some help from Russia on Iran, right?”
Yeah, not so much.
Enjoy that Nobel, Neville Obama.
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World tension continues to ease
Wizbang —
... an aggression with the use of conventional weapons not only in a large-scale but also in a regional and even local war have been revised," he said, without naming these conditions. "Moreover, different variants are considered to allow the use of nuclear weapons depending on a certain situation and intentions of a would-be enemy. In conditions critical for national security one should not also exclude a preventive nuclear strike on the aggressor." Couple that relaxing communique with the following piece and you should be completely tension free: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir ...
Go, Vlad, Go!
LewRockwell.com Blog —
... Putin blocks the Amero-Anglo-Franco-Israelo-neocono drive for murder-sanctions against Iranian children, women, and men, and then their nuking. ...
Another Former President Who Hides From Hillary
Weekly Standard Blog —
Reuters reports:
Clinton said she would have liked to have seen Putin but that their agendas did not coincide. Putin left for a trip to the Russian Far East and China before her arrival in Moscow.
That isn't humiliating at all. The Russian strong-man would rather go visit Siberia than meet with the U.S. Secretary of State -- another behind the scenes victory for "smart power." And this so quick on the heels of the Polish prime minister screening Hillary's late night calls. Maybe if Hillary didn't get so ...
Shrewd, Gutsy, and Naive?
Hit & Run —
... It would have perhaps been shrewd (but not "gutsy") had the
Russians not played the neophyte president like a fiddle.
Reuters: ...
Putin sides with the Iranian jihad, warns against sanctions and "intimidating Iran"
Jihad Watch —
... criticized Putin's Russia for its short-sighted and self-serving eagerness to aid the global jihad, but seldom has even Putin sided with the jihad so openly and wholeheartedly as this. "There is no need to frighten the Iranians," he says, bizarrely. Yes, the poor little Iranian lambs, so they've uttered a few genocidal threats against Israel, but there's no need to frighten the poor dears! "Russia's Putin warns against intimidating Iran," by Darya Korsunskaya for Reuters, October 14 (thanks to James):
BEIJING ...
Is Obama A Fool?
Power Line —
... unilateral concession to Russia in abandoning our anti-missile defense system in central Europe, with no publicly-acknowledged quid pro quo, may support the view that in international relations, at least, Obama is a fool. But we need to be fair here: it is possible that this seemingly unilateral giveaway was, in fact, a bargain, and that Obama got something from the Russians, presumably in relation to Russia's client Iran, that has not yet become public.
So this report on Hillary Clinton's trip to Russia is worrisome:
Russian Prime ...
Just Politics..? Daily Feed — ... President Obama, recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, instead showed himself to be the Piece Prize winner instead, giving away yet another piece of American leverage: ...
Obama Gave Away SDI to the Russians for This?
Just Politics..? Daily Feed —
... President Obama, recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, instead showed himself to be the Piece Prize winner instead, giving away yet another piece of American leverage: ...
Putin, Iran, Nuke Talks And First Strikes
QandO —
... Vladimir “Pooty Poot” Putin, with the opportunity to either back the words of Russia’s president that sometimes sanctions are just necessary or the Foreign Minister’s words of yesterday, chose to back the FM’s: ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/15/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... document on military policy including a passage on preventative nuclear force will be handed to President Dmitry Medvedev by the end of the year, according to Izvestia. Officials are examining “a variety of possibilities for using nuclear force, depending on the situation and the intentions of the possible opponent,” Patrushev was quoted as saying. “In situations critical to national security, options including a preventative nuclear strike on the aggressor are not excluded.” [image] Russia’s Putin Warns Against Intimidating Iran Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned ...
A Lesson in Unintended Consequences for Our President
Pajamas Media —
Obama's gesture to Russia in dropping plans for a missile shield in central Europe brought him nothing in return. [image] President Barack Obama just received a double slap in the face. Russia’s paramount leader, Vladimir Putin, in a display of steely contempt, has said “nyet” to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s entreaties to sanction the Iranians for developing nuclear materials for weapons use. Furthermore, ...
What Does Russia Hope to Gain By Being Soft on Iran?
Pajamas Media —
... : “The threat of sanctions against Iran would be counterproductive.” He resisted U.S. efforts to win agreement for measures if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is peaceful. Lavrov’s boss Vladimir Putin — the real power in Russia — declared while on an official visit to China: “There is no need to frighten the Iranians.” He added: “We need to look for a compromise. If a compromise is not found, and the discussions end in a fiasco, then we will see.” Iranian proximity to the Russian border on the Caspian Sea should make Moscow at least a little edgy about Tehran’s quest ...
