Great. Now King George has pissed off Russia.
How many more nations are going to turn their backs on us before we get rid of this buffoon? This war-mongering fool! Is there no end to how far this puppet of the military industrial complex will push us down this road to ruin?
Every time Bush speaks he tells us not to worry, that things are great. How long are we going to accept his lies?
He needs to be impeached now and every single one of his inept, under-qualified cronies needs to be replaced as well.
President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, on Saturday signed a decree suspending Russia's participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty due to "extraordinary circumstances ... which affect the security of the Russian Federation and require immediate measures," the Kremlin said in a statement.
Putin has accused the United States and its NATO partners of undermining regional stability with U.S. plans for a missile defense system in former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe.
This move on Russia’s part is directly due to our weak diplomatic stance against Iran’s recent refusal to back down from the threats they have received from the West for not halting their nuclear program. The U.S. thinks, wrongly, that simply flexing its military muscle, nation's will cower in servitude. And now since our over-burdened military is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan it is even more laughable that the U.S. will continue to use this tired tactic.
Why can’t the world leaders see that when you don’t follow-up on a threat you lose all credibility. The answer is not to simply follow through with your threats, it is to not make threats in the first place. Stop using the military might as a tool of diplomacy. The U.S. needs to start showing respect and stop stomping on everyone who does something that we don’t like. We have become schoolyard bullies and we deserve to have our collective, arrogant butts kicked and humility needs to be forced down our throats.
Now Russia won’t even allow inspections and verifications of its military sites by NATO countries, and they will no longer limit the number of its conventional weapons. Everyone knows NATO is just a puppet of U.S. policy.
Withdrawal from the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty would allow Moscow to build up forces near its borders. And since they feel a threat they have a right to do so. If the U.S. was in Russia’s position, don’t think for a moment that the U.S. would not do exactly the same thing and expect the offending nation or nations to back down.
Of course Russian military analysts have said the possibility of suspending participation in the treaty was a symbolic rising of ante in the missile shield showdown more than a sign of impending military escalation.
I don’t believe that Russia has any intentions of attacking any of its neighbors. But how can they sit back and allow an aggressive world power to build missile sites within range of its territories without raising objections to it?
If Russia did the same thing in Mexico or Canada and used the excuse that the missiles would only be deployed against some third nation, the U.S. would raise hell against Russia. So, why the double standard? Please don’t tell me that it is because it is traditional that the U.S. adopt ‘double-standard’ policies. I already know they do. It must stop in order for there to be true peaceful co-existence.
This represents yet another unfriendly move on America’s part and will serve only to spoil relations with Russia.
Somebody needs to stop this maniac George Walker Bush. When are you people in government (our representative, indeed) going to do something?
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