Sure, there are many hotspots of crisis in this world at the time that B. Hussein Obama takes over as U.S. President next month - Iran nukes, Israel-Hamas ceasefire has ended, Iraq War, War in Afghanistan...but the Russians apparently have decided to dangle a carrot to test the temperatures of the Obama waters. Today, a Russian general basically said that if the U.S. abandons the defensive shield weapons systems in eastern Europe, Russia would cancel its plans for more strategic missile systems. Here's some of the details from Breitbart:
One thing that Obama is going to find out when he becomes President in January is that he won't have the luxury of ducking his response to gauntlets thrown out like this - in most major foreign policy stand offs in the past year, Obama has consistently been the LAST one to voice an opinion and quite frankly, hasn't even offered up an answer to offers like this. Well, I will be intrigued to see what Obama does with this Russian offer.
Will he throw the Poles and the Czechs under the same bus that his preacher and his terrorist buddy got thrown? Will he give in to the Russians? Or will he show some backbone out of the gates and tell the Russians to take their blackmail efforts and stuff em up their ass? We'll know the answer to this probably before any other situation.
A senior Russian general said Friday the military will cut some weapons programs if the United States drops its missile defense plans, a news agency reported.
The Interfax news agency quoted Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov as saying that the Russian armed forces wouldn't need some prospective strategic weapons if the new U.S. administration changes its mind about deploying missile defense sites in Europe.
"Several expensive programs will simply become unnecessary for us," said Solovtsov, the chief of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces.
Solovtsov didn't elaborate, but he has said earlier that Russia plans to modernize its intercontinental ballistic missiles to protect them from space-based components of the U.S. missile defense system.
Other Russian officials have previously boasted about prospective new warheads capable of making sharp maneuvers to dodge missile defense systems.
Solovtsov's statement was the latest expression of the Kremlin's hope that President-elect Barack Obama may reverse the Bush administration plan to build missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.
One thing that Obama is going to find out when he becomes President in January is that he won't have the luxury of ducking his response to gauntlets thrown out like this - in most major foreign policy stand offs in the past year, Obama has consistently been the LAST one to voice an opinion and quite frankly, hasn't even offered up an answer to offers like this. Well, I will be intrigued to see what Obama does with this Russian offer.
Will he throw the Poles and the Czechs under the same bus that his preacher and his terrorist buddy got thrown? Will he give in to the Russians? Or will he show some backbone out of the gates and tell the Russians to take their blackmail efforts and stuff em up their ass? We'll know the answer to this probably before any other situation.
Russia to cut arms if US drops missile defense
MOSCOW (AP) - A senior Russian general said Friday the military will cut some weapons programs if the United States drops its missile defense plans, a news agency reported.
The Interfax news agency quoted Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov as saying that the Russian armed forces wouldn't need some prospective strategic weapons if the new U.S. administration changes its mind about deploying missile defense sites in Europe.
"Several expensive programs will simply become unnecessary for us," said Solovtsov, the chief of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces.
Solovtsov didn't elaborate, but he has said earlier that Russia plans to modernize its intercontinental ballistic missiles to protect them from space-based components of the U.S. missile defense system.
Other Russian officials have previously boasted about prospective new warheads capable of making sharp maneuvers to dodge missile defense systems.
Solovtsov's statement was the latest expression of the Kremlin's hope that President-elect Barack Obama may reverse the Bush administration plan to build missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Russia has fiercely opposed the plan and promised to deploy missiles next to Poland if the U.S. goes ahead. Russian leaders have dismissed the U.S. claims that the missile shield was aimed to counter a missile threat from Iran, saying it damages Russia's security.
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