From putin with love
G-8 Interview with Vladimir Putin:
“So we believe there are no reasons and no grounds for establishing the anti-missile system in Eastern Europe … and of course we will have to respond to that.”
I think that the prospect of a missile defense system in eastern Europe is a perfectly reasonable thing for the west to consider building in light of possible attacks from rouge states, and despite the objections and threats coming from Russia.
The fact that Russia is going to respond to the creation of such a system with an increased emphasis on their own weapons systems is not a serious enough threat to world security to warrant not proceeding. If the cold war taught us anything it is that mutual assured destruction is a very powerful deterrent from launching nuclear weapons at an enemy. The west knows that Russia will be very considerate of the consequences if they do attack, what we don’t know is if rouge states will be.
When the the west proceeds in building the missile defense system in eastern Europe Russia will be provoked, but Russia is no longer the enemy, lesser countries with less to lose are.
Damn those rouge states to hell! …and while we’re at it, the purple ones too!
I never did like the purple ones. good call