Cold War Vol. 2

[trance247]

I've been reading a lot of Russian and former USSR news sources in Russian and watched quite few interviews with Medvedev and Putin. As you imagined they are not very happy and often enough stuff they say is pretty bad and I get a lot of old soviet anti-American vibes. On top of that they will be staging combined navy air force and missile defense exercises soon...is history about to repeat itself SOON? Mr Chavez does not mind having Russian long range bombers, are we looking at next potential "missile crisis" not to forget the whole Poland thing...

 

[ElFenix]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahTGNIk4q4

 

[miketheidiot]

russia ia about as paper tiger as paper tigers get, at least when on the offensive

 

[StageLeft]

When oil was $147, a major income for Russia, their military was in tatters, although yes they are coming back. Now that it's under $90 Russia and other oil-heavy nations are starting to panic. I am not scared about Russia at all. The only fear I have is that a beligerent adversary such as the US under the helm of an asinine president would do things to antagonize.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
... the US under the helm of an asinine president would do things to antagonize.

Pick your asinine president....

http://obama.senate.gov/press/...3-obama_statement_128/

or...

http://afp.google.com/article/...IgETnddU6K53XyVU4PBP4A

 

[gevorg]

Those recent "vibes" of Cold War are coming out of Republican neocons, not Russia. Russia is acting pretty defensively even with their "muscle flexing". Warmongering and financial crisis is not enough for Bush administration, they want to add ruined relations with Russia to the list before they leave the White House. If Obama wins, this will be the biggest challenge Democratic party has ever faced.

 

[Auric]

Perspective is key. Turkey was the original crisis before Cuba. Likewise, Poland before Venezuela. Russia's resumption of long-range nuclear bomber patrols is certainly no worse than the USA's never having halted them -indeed quite the contrary. So, it is absurd to criticize Russia for merely countering aggression in kind. Ditto, we are bombarded with facts about Russia's increased military spending yet the USA still spends more than every other nation combined. I see it from more of an Orwellian point of view in that the elites need external enemies so as to control and exploit their own citizens. Because it goes beyond competition when the net result is worse than not playing at all -i.e. the potential benefit of global or even regional influence is negated by the burden to the majority.

 

[MadRat]

Russia's global forces are only on life support right now. A drop in oil prices pretty much nullifies their progress up to this point in time.

 

[nageov3t]

no