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Originally posted by maestro46
Oh my God...I did not just see somebody throw Russia into a bunch with Muslims, terrorists and other nations which...might want to invade Europe??? Let me think about this one, hold on one sec...WHY WOULD THEY GIVE A CRAP ABOUT INVADING EUROPE?!?!?!?!?! How many times did you think that theory over? No I meant to say you're absolutely right. All the muslim and terrorist nations are on standby - their women are giving birth as fast as possible to increase manpower and kids with grenades in their diapers, all the males above the age of 6 are hand crafting bootleg AK-47s and RPGs, Russia is busy repainting the red star on all it's military tech and are massing on the eastern European border eager to crush the capitalists. The only thing in their way this whole time is the waving US flag and a missile shield...cause that's not even a tiny bit ridiculous.
Regards,
Maestro
[edit on 5-6-2007 by maestro46]
Originally posted by Fowl Play
Makes me laugh when people say Bush is not smart. He is smart just for making you think that. Bush plays up to his old Yankee doodle dandy image.. Bush is shrewd and ruthless. An immense figure and awesome modern day Politician. Bush has done things presidents could only dream about. The guy is a do-er not a talker.
Originally posted by yanchek
Muadibb,
can you please stop telling everyone that Polish and Czech gov. asked or requested this shield? Those two governments were aproached by US and requested an negotiations on this issue and that was confirmed in january 2007
Czechs accuse Russia of missile blackmail
WARSAW (Reuters) - The Czech Republic said on Tuesday it would not be intimidated by Russia over plans to site parts of a U.S. missile defence system on its soil, and said attempts at "blackmail" by Moscow would backfire.
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said threats by Russian officials over the plans, which would involve placing a radar system on Czech territory and a missile battery in Poland, would only make Czechs more determined to defend themselves.
Russia's strategic forces commander, General Nikolai Solovtsov, said on Monday that Russia would be capable of firing missiles at the Czech Republic and Poland if the ex-communist states agreed to host the U.S. defence system.
Poland needs U.S. base to cede from Russian influence - PM
WARSAW, February 20 (RIA Novosti) - The deployment of a U.S. anti-missile base in Poland will guarantee that Warsaw will no longer be under Russia's sphere of influence, the Polish prime minister said Tuesday.
The governments of Poland and the Czech Republic reaffirmed Monday their readiness to allow the United States to base elements of its missile shield on their territories.
"We are talking about the status of Poland and about Russia's hopes that Poland will once again come under its [Moscow's] sphere of influence," Jaroslaw Kaczynski said.
Golitsyn maintains that the goals of the master plan were to provide a more profound political stabilization of individual communist regimes by developing wider mass support, the rectification of economic weakness of the bloc by increased international trade and the acquisition of credits and high technology from the West, the creation of a substructure for an eventual world federation of communist states, political isolation of the US from its allies, developing influence among socialists in Western Europe and Japan, the dissolution of NATO, and an alignment between the Soviet Union and a neutral, preferably socialist, Western Europe; concerted action with nationalist leaders in the Third World to eliminate Western influence as a preliminary to absorbing them in a communist federation, shifting the balance of power in favor of the Communist world, and the ideological disarmament of the West to create favorable conditions for convergence of East and West on communist terms.
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"Golitsyn predicts that the Soviet regime will be stabilized by the creation of spurious, controlled opposition movements and the use of those movements to neutralize genuine internal and external opposition, and that it will encourage communist parties to establish united fronts with socialist parties throughout the world thus increasing Soviet influence in parliaments and trade unions.4
Some of the techniques, according to Golitsyn, will be dissension within the bloc, unity of action behind disunity of words, a show of weakness before meeting with Western leaders or before major initiatives or negotiations, and the heavy use of disinformation.5 This disinformation will emanate from official Communist sources, unofficial Communist sources, and "secret" communist sources, much of it retrospective. It is to be delivered through Western newspapermen, scholars, officials, and the Soviet intelligentsia.
The final phase of the master plan, according to Golitsyn, is a disinformation and deception campaign of such magnitude that it would be "beyond the imagination of Marx, or the practical reach of Lenin, and unthinkable to Stalin. Among such previously unthinkable stratagems are the introduction of false liberalization in Eastern Europe and, probably, the Soviet Union, and the exhibition of spurious independence on the part of the regimes in Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland."
Colonel Stanislav Lunev is a former Russian spy. He is currently a consultant for the FBI and the CIA and writes a column for NewsMax.com. The highest-ranking military officer ever to defect from Russia to the United States, Lunev defected when Yeltsin came to power in 1992.
CNN Moderator: Welcome to CNN.com, Colonel Stanislav Lunev.
Col. Stanislav Lunev: Hello and thank you for inviting me.
CNN Moderator: Have Russian spy activities in the U.S. increased or decreased since the end of the Cold War?
Col. Stanislav Lunev: From the end of the Cold War, Russian spy activity against the West and the U.S. has decreased until the middle of the 90's, when it increased dramatically. Now, it would be comparable to the coldest days of the Cold War.
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Question from chat room: Does Russia still see the U.S. as an enemy?
Col. Stanislav Lunev: Unfortunately, the Russian government considers the United States as its main potential military adversary. The increase in Russian intelligence activity against America is directly connected to this point of view, and this view is much more popular than it was in the beginning of the '90s.
Question from chat room: How can Russia continue with what I consider deceptive spying and still ask the USA to support it financially?
Col. Stanislav Lunev: It's not Russia itself that is hostile to the United States. The Russian people like America and consider America an example for their democratic reforms and creation of a free market economy. It�s the Russian government that is hostile. This is a government which actually spends all the billions of dollars it receives from the United States on its corrupt Russian elite that have private accounts in Western banks.
The Russian government tries to explain to the Russian people that Russians are living so badly, not because of a corrupted Russian government, but because an enemy would like to destroy Russia like it's already destroyed the former Soviet Union, destroyed Yugoslavia and would like to destroy Mother Russia, too. "
CIS: Referendums Seen As Kremlin's Master Plan
BRUSSELS, September 20, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- There is no evidence of direct Kremlin involvement in the September 17 referendum in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region, in which voters overwhelmingly approved a course of independence with an eventual view to joining Russia. But the referendum -- and a similar vote upcoming in Georgia's separatist South Ossetia -- is widely seen as part of a broader Russian strategy to entrench its influence in the former Soviet republics.
Few observers think that the Transdniester referendum is only about Transdniestrian independence. Amanda Akcakoca, an analyst with the European Policy Center, a Brussels-based think tank, says it's also a gesture to Russia.
"I think the point is to show their short of undying support for Russia. To show to the world that they're unhappy with the situation they are in and that they continue to support and want to be part of Russia," says Akcakoca.
She adds that this, in turn, "gives Russia in return a very strong case for keeping its troops, armaments in Transdniester."
Originally posted by Muaddib
Wow, that's a very constructive argument.
But this is a thread about what "Putin" has said...