Yes, I am a prophet. Remember back, oh, two days ago when I said Russia was dangerous? Well…case in point.
Russia is weighing changes to its military doctrine that would allow for a “preventive” nuclear strike against its enemies — even those armed only with conventional weapons. The news comes just as American diplomats are trying to get Russia to cut down its nuclear stockpile, and put the squeeze on Iran’s suspect nuclear program.
In an interview published today in Izvestia, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Kremlin’s security council, said the new doctrine offers “different options to allow the use of nuclear weapons, depending on a certain situation and intentions of a would-be enemy. In critical national security situations, one should also not exclude a preventive nuclear strike against the aggressor.”
Emphasis added. Now Russia is threatening to nuke aggressors preemptively, after invading a country last year and refusing to levy sanctions on Iran this year. How’s that reset button working for you, Mr. Obama? Seems to me that you reset Russia to the 1950s.
Just when I think there’s nothing else the Obama administration can do to jeopardize our national security, they find another way to endanger our safety. In this case, they are allowing Russians (i.e. those guys like Putin who are trying to restart the Soviet Empire) to have access to our nuclear weapons. Yes…Russia…will be able to count and inspect OUR nuclear weapons. I can’t believe it either…read on.
Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads.
The plan, which Fox News has learned was agreed to in principle during negotiations, would constitute the most intrusive weapons inspection program the U.S. has ever accepted.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said publicly Tuesday that the two nations have made “considerable” progress toward reaching agreement on a new strategic arms treaty.
The 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires in December and negotiators have been racing to reach agreement on a successor.
Clinton said the U.S. would be as transparent as possible.
“We want to ensure that every question that the Russian military or Russian government asks is answered,” she said, calling missile defense “another area for deep cooperation between our countries.”
Once again, our government has gone above and beyond in their efforts to destroy America. It’s actually impressive how much of our national security they are willing to just fire down the gutter in an effort to promote the disgusting theory of trans-nationalism. Why do WE have to be transparent? Why are WE required to give up all info of our nukes while everyone else hordes and hides behind their piles of warheads? What, do we expect every other nuclear power in the world to say, “Oh, look, the U.S. is being all gracious by letting people look at their nukes and talking about disarmament, we should be too?” No, they are going to laugh at us for being stupid, just like China and India are laughing at us about the Cap and Tax bill because it’s just going to let them pollute even more and produce even more.
No one is going to get rid of their nukes, even if we get rid of ours. Right now, we have mutually assured destruction on the planet. If any country in the world fires nukes, everyone else fires nukes and everyone on the planet dies. Simple fact. However, if we reduced the amount of nuclear weapons in the world by, say, 90%, there would not be enough left to destroy the whole world, and thus it would open the door for people to start nuking each other without risking the apocalypse.
I love The Hilldabeast’s main point there…’we want to make sure all the questions the Russians have are answered.’
WHO CARES WHAT QUESTIONS RUSSIA WANTS ANSWERED?!?!? Seriously. Russia is NOT an ally. They are refusing to help us on the Iran issue and our ridiculously short memories seem to forget they attacked a sovereign nation just a year ago. Russia needs to be held at arm’s length while we stare at them grimly across the table, safeties off on our weapons. Putin is a loose cannon, and their government has been yanking the cord of the old Soviet Empire like an old lawnmower, trying to see if they can get her to fire up and motor along.
This will be the SECOND time in recent history we’ve acquiesced to Russian demands, the first being the dismantling of our missile shield. What have we gotten in return? Pushback on fighting Iran. Russia is dangerous…just ask Georgia.
Why are we conceding point after point to this aggressive and potentially extremely violent nation? Personally, I think Obama is just this ridiculously naive and inexperienced. He’s an appeaser through and through.
He’s looking more like Neville Chamberlain every day…and we see how well THAT worked out for Europe after he tried to “appease” this guy named “Hitler.” That guy, he of the small mustache and angry salutes, took all the appeasement from Chamberlain and then laid siege to the world. You can’t appease madmen, and you can’t appease tyrants. Any attempt to do so is foolhardy, naïve and dangerous.
If this is what a “reset” of our relations with Russia constitutes (i.e. giving ground on every issue and allowing them to walk all over us), I pray to God we don’t ever try to “reset” relations with Cuba or North Korea or Iran or Al Qaeda. We’ll be establishing embassies for them in D.C. and giving them Congressional representatives for chrissakes.
This is just one of the 250 million reasons why electing a community organizer with no foreign policy experience as president is a horrendously bad idea.
Obama, exercising his “diplomatic muscles,” has tucked his tail between his legs and offered to meekly destroy our plans for a missile defense shield in Europe since Russia is offended by it.
President Obama offered to consider scrapping plans for a missile defense shield in Europe if Russia helps rein in Iran’s nuclear program, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.
The article said Obama wrote to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to tell him Russia’s aid in resolving the threat from Iran would make the missile shield plans unnecessary, according to an account from Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
A senior administration official told FOX News that Obama sent a letter to Medvedev but “we won’t comment on the specifics.”
Obama inherited plans to build the system in Poland and the Czech Republic from the Bush administration, but the new administration has equivocated over the project. Though the plans were put in place to deter nations like Iran and North Korea from launching attacks and developing nuclear weapons, Russia has interpreted the planned installation as a threat.
Russia’s “help” on Iran? What is Russia going to do to “help?” Make greeting cards? Send baskets of vodka? Teach small children how to talk angrily? I mean, honestly, what do we gain from this? Nothing. What do we lose? One of our best chances to create a shield to protect ourselves and our allies from ballistic nuclear attacks.
The missile shield isn’t just for North Korea and Iran. This shield would protect us from the increasingly antagonistic Russia that looks like it’s trying to start Soviet Union 2.0, which is why they are offended by this.
Us accepting “help” from Russia in exchange for us sacrificing our national defense and the defense of our allies is like a farmer telling the fox he’ll take the fence away from the chicken house if the fox helps him kill a few squirrels. At the end of the day, the fox is still inside your fence.
Eight Russian reporters have resigned in protest when their news agency announced that it was going to make sure it ran half of its coverage as “pro-government” pieces. Talk about an attack on the very foundation of free speech and freedom of the press.
Already under scrutiny for the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, Russia has now turned their attentions to Iran by selling them missle defense systems.
As if the fellows over there in Tehran weren’t arrogant enough, now our fur-wearing friends are going to help them out with technology that could theoretically defend against a U.S. missle strike.
Predictably, Russia’s state arms exporter has denied the claims.
