Russia Plays Chess While U.S. NeoCunts Play Checkers

[Nbadan]

The NeoCunts and their cronies in Georgia got goated into attacking a Russian neighbor by Putin and his thugs then got their ass kicked, now the Ruskies have their eyes on the U.S. queen by providing military muscle to Hugo Chavez and Iran...




CARACAS (Reuters) - Russian warships will sail into the Caribbean later this year, helping Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to fend off perceived U.S. aggression and weaken Washington's influence in its traditional backyard.

Evoking Cold War memories, Russia said this week it would send the missile-laden, nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great and other hi-tech ships for joint naval exercises with Venezuela scheduled for November.

The manoeuvres show a resurgent Russia flexing its military muscle at a time of diplomatic tension with the United States after the Georgia war and over Washington's plans for a missile defence shield hosted by several former Soviet states.

Reuters (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x171375)

but...but Palin will take care of those ruskies!

:rolleyes

[balli]

The NeoCunts and their cronies in Georgia got goated into attacking a Russian neighbor by Putin and his thugs then got their ass kicked, now the Ruskies have their eyes on the U.S. queen by providing military muscle to Hugo Chavez and Iran...





Reuters (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x171375)

but...but Palin will take care of those ruskies!

:rolleyes

After all, she did live near their barren eastern border. Can't think why somebody would think Senatorial experience on the Foreign Relations Committee would even compare to that? :rolleyes

[johnsmith]

Don't worry, Obama will reason with them.

[Nbadan]

The arms situation is so ridiculous that the U.S is also supplying terraist supporters now...


WASHINGTON: The United States is suddenly faced with the uncomfortable scenario of confronting the very same weapons and military hardware, including F-16 fighter jets, it has armed Pakistan with for decades.

The unsavoury prospect of having to take a crack at the its one-time ally has surfaced most starkly in the skies over the Afghan-Pakistan border this weekend after the Pakistan Air Force deployed its US-supplied F-16s to challenge the violation of its airspace by US drones, and in one case, an airborne assault that landed US Navy Seals inside Pakistani territory.

The turnaround of Pakistan from an ally to a potential enemy has alarmed lawmakers, some of whom are now questioning the continued supply of arms to Islamabad. On Tuesday, a Democrat-controlled House Foreign Relations panel has scheduled a hearing whose snarky title -- ''Defeating al-Qaida's Air Force: Pakistan's F-16 Program in the Fight Against Terrorism'' == betrays the unease over the Bush Administration’s relentless arming of Pakistan. Al-Qaida has no known air force.

Some lawmakers and analysts have long questioned the need for Washington to arm Pakistan with sophisticated fighter jets to counter Al-Qaida’s and Taliban’s diffused militants, many of whom are in Pakistan’s towns and cities and are patronised by Islamabad’s intelligence agencies. ''The panel will look at how the F-16 program fits into the broader US strategy in the fight against terrorism as well as into the overall US relationship with Pakistan,'' a notification from the sub-committee read.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Confronting our own arms is irrelevant, that has been happening since the advent of the US arms industry.
I think the significance of the Russia thing is overblown. Their navy is pretty piss poor.

[Nbadan]

Yeah, nuclear power subs are piss poor

:rolleyes

[Cant_Be_Faded]

But they're not going to nuke us. They know we know that, and we know that they know that we know that.
So to what end is this gesture?

[Nbadan]

Doesn't matter if they nuke us....the Russians are fighting a war of attrition...trying to collapse our money supply while we spend ourselves militarily into oblivion...

[balli]

But they're not going to nuke us. They know we know that, and we know that they know that we know that.
So to what end is this gesture?

Like Dan's quote said, it symbolically weakens our power within our our hemisphere. Whether it does in actuality or not is another matter, but the symbol of having Russian subs in our neighbor's waters is fairly stinging indictment of our military influence. It symbolically says- we don't fear you America. It says- we know you got your hands more than tied with that bullshit in the middle east.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Well yeah, its a symbolic gesture, but what I am saying is there is no real threat of "confrontation" like that article Dan posted suggests. Doing this also alters the ratio of Russian to US ships in Russia's backyard too.