Russians: “Please Give Us Your Technology, For We Are Dunces”
April 7th, 2007 at 2:01 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesThe Russians, who continue to pretend to be our friend with their fingers crossed and hidden behind their back, aren’t very keen on the idea of the U.S. daring to protect itself. They want in.
“Russia has every reason to be interested in close cooperation in creating Eurasian missile-defense systems,” Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the State Duma, wrote in an opinion piece in the International Herald Tribune.
“And any attempt to build them without Russia (which is not only an interested party but also geographically and technically the most suitable place for an effective antimissile defense) automatically means they are being built against Russia,” wrote the lawmaker.
Well, there’s a damn good reason they’re being built against Russia – you and Pootie-Poot-Putin can’t be trusted. Though it does escape me as to why we’re protecting Europe. Unless we’re merely protecting our own economic and military interests – because, let’s face it, the one-world-government-fellating pansies that inhabit the Eurosocialist Union aren’t worth the gunpowder it would take to blow ‘em away.
Washington insists the anti-missile shield is intended as protection against attacks from “rogue states” such as Iran and points out that the proposed system would be useless against Russia’s vast weapons arsenal.
Kosachev argued building an antimissile shield without Russia wouldn’t be effective and counterproductive as Moscow would view it as a threat.
“Our colleagues in Europe should understand this basic principle: Any attempt to build a security system without Russia (still less against it) by definition cannot be comprehensive or effective,” he wrote.
I do like the idea of protecting the former Eastern Bloc countries, though. They seem to be the only ones over there who appreciate their own freedom from former Communist oppression. The rest of Europe seems hellbent on giving up everything that made their individual countries unique. But once you give up individualism and your country’s own traditions, why not just surrender and join the collective?
April 7th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I don’t know if it’s a sign of being weak or clever on the Russian’s part. They either are unable to buy/steal the tech as proficiently as the Chinese or they are being cost effective by just asking for it as opposed to investing in the resources to bribe the supply chain or hack their data reservoirs.
Either way, I’m just waiting for the stories to come out where Leftists in our midst endorse the tech defense giveaway. My less likely but real, other fear is that Bush will look into Putin’s eyes and say, “Yeah, Pootie-Poot’s a man who can be trusted. I saw it in his beautiful soul coyly peeking from behind a kevlar vest of bile.”
April 7th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
That’s what scares me too, Drivel. That’s another one of President Junior’s lowest moments, and he’s had many.
It’s probably being more clever than stupid. They know how the bedwetting American left will react and how they’ll fall in line with Eurabia demanding that the Great Satan take down the shield so that rogue states (China, Iran, USSR) aren’t offended.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
The idea that they would allow those former bloc countries to have a defense is a complete about face. The “former” part still pisses them off which is why they are undermining Yuschenko in the Ukraine and threatening every other “former” with an petroleum-based blackmail.
It’s a ruse. They’ve been saying for years that they can outsmart any anti-missile defense system so this doesn’t wash.
Maybe in return we can ask to participate in joint military exercises with Russia and China, because if they don’t let us then we know they are training to take on us.
April 9th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Pootie-Poot-Putin,, such eloquent writing skills, I love it!