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“The idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it,” Ms. Rice said, slipping inadvertently into cold war terminology with her reference to the Soviet Union.
-- C.J. Chivers and Mark Landler for The New York Times
As well she might. It is feeling like the old days.
America wants to set up an anti-missile system to defend against future nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea and the like. Putin is crying foul, for reasons unclear, except to be defiant and assertive, and is threatening to withdraw from Russia's treaty obligation with NATO regarding conventional weapons, and thus holding up the specter of a possible Russian march westward.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
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“The idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it,” Ms. Rice said, slipping inadvertently into cold war terminology with her reference to the Soviet Union.
-- C.J. Chivers and Mark Landler for The New York Times
As well she might. It is feeling like the old days.
America wants to set up an anti-missile system to defend against future nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea and the like. Putin is crying foul, for reasons unclear, except to be defiant and assertive, and is threatening to withdraw from Russia's treaty obligation with NATO regarding conventional weapons, and thus holding up the specter of a possible Russian march westward.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
