How long until Russia begins supplying Iraqis and Afghans with missiles?

[NNN0LHI]

You know that is coming. Shit every time Bush or McCain open their mouths the chances increase that there will soon be Russian supplied missiles falling into the Green Zone and Kabul and blowing our aircraft out of the skies.

Don

[paparush]

1. When the tanks roll back into Poland. That will provide the cover for shipments to Iraq and Afghan.

Bush is knee deep in shit and has no idea how to get out.

I really don't want a "Bring Em On!" moment with a Russia that is looking to re-establish itself as a dominant world power.

[rustydad]

26. More anti-Russia BS

Russia does not need or want the old Soviet Union back. It does want to make sure it is not surrounded by US proxy countries with offensive arms from US and Israel. Russia has the one weapon that stikes fear into the hearts of most of Europe. That is heat. Heat in the form of natural gas. Europe is a cold place in winter and Russia keeps it warm. They don't want or need a new cold war. All they need do is stop pumping gas and Europe drops to it's knees. Bob

[tekisui]

2. The way things are going that claim is due soon.

Whether or not it happens.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

3. In all reality, I'm surprised it han't happened already.

Russia isn't exactly a rich country.

[madokie]

4. I would say the preparations have started

possible first shipments loaded and ready to send if dickhead doesn't get his act together. The Russian will and do play for keeps. I see in Putin a person who is very worried for the Russian citizens as well as the whole world with boy wonder and his merry band of murderers and war criminals and he is only holding back from doing something about it already. He won't need much more goading.

[theboss]

21. Yea...Putin is very concerned over the state of the world

That's precisely his personality.

[theboss]

5. They wouldn't do that

Russia is not going to supply Muslims with weapons that will eventually show up in Chechnya. Putin is not that narrow a thinker.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I read this morning that we're sending Iraqi troops to Georgia!

[nc4bo]

8. We're doing what???!!!! I'm almost afraid to ask for a link.......

[Romulox]

11. Ummm, no. nt

[AllentownJake]

12. You read that wrong

Iraqi troops are taking over the area in Iraq where Georgia was in Iraq.

[nc4bo]

13. whew, thanks. 'xcuse me while I take a long, deep cleansing breath.

Feel a bit better now, just a little bit.

[theboss]

14. No, flew Georgian troops from Iraq to Georgia

Slight difference

[Oregone]

18. Iraqi troops taking over base in Iraq ran previously by the Georgian force that left

Misleading article title, that I also saw.

[Arctic Dave]

7. Why give them missiles, IED are just as or more potent.

Russia and China love the fact that we are boged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, I would be suprised if they weren't somehow helping us remain that way.

[NNN0LHI]

9. IEDs don't even get reported any more by our media

Be kind of hard to ignore US planes falling out of the sky.

Don

[Arctic Dave]

16. I think they are more interested in keeping us

tied down there, not necessarily trying to get coverage. By doing this China benefits from our obscene debt and Russia benefits from an unstable oil market. Plus, there are probably some career KGB that would love to get some payback for what we did in the 80's, just like the CIA wanted some payback for the 60's.

[theboss]

20. It's a fine line though. Russia has created its own Muslim extremist problem

They don't want to encourage more trouble within its borders. Nor does it want those IEDs showing up in Moscow.

[Arctic Dave]

24. "It's a fine line"

You nailed it. What are they willing to risk for the benefit? I guess they have their own calculus for that.

[AllentownJake]

10. They'll just step up supplying Nuclear Technology to Iran

[theboss]

15. Bingo

That's their move.

[AllentownJake]

17. Why force us into a confrontation with themselves

When they can force us to confront someone else.

[theboss]

19. I misread your post

Never mind

[truebrit71]

22. Yup....the Poles all of a sudden had a burning desire for a missile shield....

...so I have no doubt that Pootey-Poot and the Iranians will be making some calls to Teheran to see if there's anything else they need....

[Overseas]

23. Please don't buy into JSM III's military illusions. He is a warmonger having a Cold War flashback.

JSM III is having a flashback and wants a new cold war to keep the war profiteering going. Let us not help him by making the Russians into a 1950's style boogey man again. War is a Racket. JSM III wants to be Warmonger in Chief.

Putin doesn't want us arming Russia's neighboring countries to the teeth and encouraging them to join NATO, so his government may be encouraging separatist elements in those countries. But Bush-McCain has been stimulating the anti-Russian, pro-NATO elements in those countries too.

Let us not jump on board with the Neocon Flashback and inflate Russian defensive moves against it's former states joining NATO into some huge mega-machine the USA must invest billions into fighting all over the globe again. Bush-McCain policies have bankrupted us already.

[Jacobin]

25. Well, to be fair, the CIA supplied bin Laden with SAMs

in Afghanistan when the Soviets were there.

Its a bitch to be a country involved in a proxy war between two gorilla countries