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Original Post Date: 2007-02-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[These days I tend to think the West should call Russia’s bluff – even with all those nukes. I switched my DSTV off on the weekend and am sitting with months worth of viewing of the History channel and other documentaries. I was very impressed with a massive bomber the Russians once produced which was a failure. Its fuel consumption was so high it could hardly reach America. They only built two of them. Then at one of those annual military parades in Moscow, the Russians took the 2 bombers and flew them in circles and it fooled American analysts into believing the Russians actually had 700 of them! It sent America into a panic on how to counter these bombers. Many years later the Americans realised they were fooled. So I honestly wonder how much of Russian military strength is real and how much is not.
In Africa, in Angola, the S.African army fought the Russians the Cubans and their allies to a standstill. I think the West should call Russia’s bluff at some point and see just exactly what do they have and how good is it really. I think sometimes the Russians, like all good communists, are just excellent liars and one should call their bluff and see what they can really do.
The more I watch the world the more I think: Why are we afraid of China when Japan and Taiwan are on its doorstep. Japan once conquered China! The Japanese are cleverer, tougher and much richer than China. I’ll bet you, if the Japanese militarised now… they could go and sock it to the Communist Chinese in the chin.
Then in Europe… there are: Germany, France and the UK versus Russia – at the very least. Germany and France together are no walk-over. Jointly the have a population of almost half that of Russia plus they’re much richer. If: Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria had to stand together to fight Russia – I’m sure the Russians wouldn’t make it. Will the Russians really roll over Europe? I’m not so convinced of this any more.
I think we should grip the communists (and their terrorist offshoots) by the throat and take them on and see how much of their threat is real and how much are just clever lies. Why are we surrendering and “moderating” them so much? Jan]
MOSCOW, Feb. 20 (151) Officials in the Czech Republic and Poland vowed Tuesday that they would not be intimidated by Russia, a day after a general in Moscow declared that nuclear weapons could be aimed at their countries if they allowed the Bush administration to build ballistic missile defenses within their borders.
Russia has reacted with open hostility to the plan, which comes on the heels of further NATO expansion onto the territory of the former Soviet Union.
On Monday, the commander of Russia's missile forces said he was ready to re-aim nuclear weapons so they would be trained on the missile defense sites chosen in Eastern Europe.
“It is clearly an attempt to intimidate,” Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said on Polish radio.
The Czech foreign minister, Karel Schwarzenberg, said, “The Czechs will now think the shield is even more necessary,” according to a Reuters report.
“We have quite an experience with Russians,” he said. “You have to make clear to them you won't succumb to blackmail. Once you give in to blackmail, there's no going back.”
The American plan calls for a radar site in the Czech Republic and a missile battery in Poland, with the stated aim of countering threats from rogue states like Iran or North Korea. Mr. Kaczynski and his Czech counterpart, Mirek Topolanek, said Monday that they were prepared to accept the offer from the United States.
The dispute is another sign of how quickly relations between Russia and Eastern Europe have been disrupted, descending this week and last into ominous talk of nuclear and military leverage reminiscent of the cold war.
The Russian missile commander, Gen. Nikolai Y. Solovtsov, speaking of the Czech Republic and Poland's consideration of the American plan, said, “If the government of Poland, the Czech Republic and other countries make this decision (151) and I think mutual consultations that have been held and will be held will allow avoiding this (151) the strategic missile troops will be able to have those facilities as targets.
“Consequences in case of hostilities will be very grave for both sides,” he said.
A NATO spokesman, James Appathurai, called the general's threat “uncalled for.”
“The days of talk of targeting NATO territory or vice versa are long past us.” he said, Radio Free Europe reported. “This kind of extreme language is out of date.”
Just last week, Russia's top general, Yuri N. Baluyevsky, the chief of the general staff, declared that Russia could withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, negotiated by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev in 1987.
On Tuesday, General Solovtsov noted that while those missiles were scrapped under the treaty, Russia could quickly resume production. President Vladimir V. Putin set the tone in a speech on Feb. 10 in Munich, denouncing the projection of American power as “the world of one master, one sovereign.”
In the 1990s, Russia bristled, but always backed down, as NATO expanded. But under Mr. Putin, Russia has executed a more forceful foreign policy in Eastern Europe, though one focused on opening markets for Russian commodity exports and maintaining political influence in the former Soviet states.
Source: New York Times
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/world/europ…/p>