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Originally posted by Freedom ERP
reply to post by pavmas
Please remember that not everyone on this site or this planet accepts the Christian faith, or its ideals.
While thousands stave in India every day, the country has a nuclear weapons program which costs billions, more than enough to feed everyone in India.
And if arms have to be sold, I would have preferred British companies to supply. With this sale of Russian arms, very few British workers are going to benefit.
Originally posted by Freedom ERP
reply to post by pavmas
Please remember that not everyone on this site or this planet accepts the Christian faith, or its ideals.
While thousands stave in India every day, the country has a nuclear weapons program which costs billions, more than enough to feed everyone in India.
And if arms have to be sold, I would have preferred British companies to supply. With this sale of Russian arms, very few British workers are going to benefit.
Originally posted by Unrealised
So, OP, you hate the United States, too, for all it's dirty dealings around the globe?
Good for you, seriously.
Originally posted by Freedom ERP
reply to post by pavmas
Please remember that not everyone on this site or this planet accepts the Christian faith, or its ideals.
While thousands stave in India every day, the country has a nuclear weapons program which costs billions, more than enough to feed everyone in India.
And if arms have to be sold, I would have preferred British companies to supply. With this sale of Russian arms, very few British workers are going to benefit.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I agree with the title of the thread ..but when I opened to see why someone else doesn't figure Putin earns the Good Guy award of recent times ...I'm a little baffled. The Arms trade is what it is...always has been. India also has a pretty solid reason for wanting a solid defense. It's complicated in that region but heck....They have Pakistan as a neighbor and without even getting into all the particulars of why, where and how far back in history it all goes....the two (India and Pakistan) would probably be quite content to see the other blown off the face of the Earth IF they could be sure they wouldn't lose their own nation in the process.
Where would Putin fit in for feeding into any of that when, literally, Russia Inc just happens to be the store India went to for buying it's latest weapons order? If Putin said no.....Well, Obama was in India making deals a couple years ago and we maintain a close relation. We'd have possible sold them what they needed...(looks at Pakistan)..if it could be swung in just the right way of course. Kinda like Taiwan and China.
I'd love a world without the global arms trade feeding nothing but ever more creative ways for erasing human life instead of feeding it's development .... but I think the problems go far beyond one guy ....even if I kinda hate that guy for a truck load of other reasons too.