[quote]orion wrote:
Because their foreign policies already are at least semi-clever.
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What foreign policies do you speak of? Doing nothing but bitch about America? Is that a semi-clever foreign policy?
[quote]Majin wrote:
Gkhan wrote:
Why are you so pissed about missile shields in Poland?
Why is it a threat to Russia?
What’s hard to understand here? What would we think if Russian missile defense shields were placed in Canada, Cuba and Mexico? Hey, they’re just SHIELDS, right?
Regardless of actual threats or intentions, the act of placing our weapon systems in nations close to Russia doesn’t exactly send a friendly message.
Sidenote: Poland actually wanted to buy more. Something like $20bil of our weapons…but we only sold them about 0.1 of that. Maybe due to knowing what reaction that would lead to from the Russians.
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Hey I already said the Russians are sending OFFENSIVE nuclear bombers to CUBA several times on several threads. And yes, I regard this as a hostile action.
I also regard the fact that the Russians are arming our enemy Iran with OFFENSIVE potentially nuclear weapons that could strike Europe a hostile action.
So to point to America and say that placing a missile shield is wrong because it sends Russia a bad message…
what the hell message are they sending us by arming Cuba and Iran with nukes?
If Russia had not helped Iran, there would not be any need for a defensive missile shielf.
Russia has been sending us a bad message for about 10 years, it’s about time we do something about it.
[quote]Gkhan wrote:
orion wrote:
Because their foreign policies already are at least semi-clever.
What foreign policies do you speak of? Doing nothing but bitch about America? Is that a semi-clever foreign policy?[/quote]
Well for Europe that seems to work well, Russia, Iran, Cuba and North Korea seem to be able to act just enough to keep the US of their backs.
All, except North Korea with minimal effort, whereas the US is spending more money than is sustainable for any longer period of time.
Most nations only have to wait.
Either you cut back on your own or you empire breaks down because you can no longer finance it.
To put it short, if you rival is ruining himself, why do anything?
[quote]GDollars37 wrote:
Come on. It’s interceptors on your border. Anything that threatens your nuclear arsenal is going to make you pretty touchy. You don’t think we’d react the same way?
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Hell yeah, arming a Islamic Revolutionary power with offensive missiles to strike Europe and help them with nuclear weapons potential would probably make us react the same way.
Yeah.
Planting missiles in Russia’s backyard is a bad idea. All it’s really doing is trigger an arms race. Now we have Russia threatening Poland, Syria saying it’ll host Russian missile systems and billions squandered on weapons when they could be used for more constructive endeavors.
Notice how the argument that the missiles are about an Iranian threat is parroted. Some people are morons who’ll buy anything that comes out of the White House.
So, even if the missiles were to counter Russian missiles, in your opinion, is Poland, and Europe, more or less safe with Russian nukes targeted at them?
And if indeed these nukes are targeted at them, why is Poland, a country which was under Communist domination for 40 years, wrong for wanting to defend itself?
Would it be wiser for the ex-Communist block members to point OFFENSIVE nuclear arms toward Russia.
Then maybe the Russians would havea valid reason to point their nukes West.