{"id":160,"date":"2007-01-25T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/25\/call-putin-what-he-is-adversary\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:54:56","slug":"call-putin-what-he-is-adversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Call Putin what he is; adversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today in the\u00c2\u00a0Washington Times AP’s\u00c2\u00a0Vladimir Isachenkov<\/a> writes that;<\/p>\n

Russia’s defense minister yesterday harshly criticized U.S. plans to deploy missile-defense sites in Central Europe, saying Moscow doesn’t trust the U.S. explanation that they are intended to counter missile threats posed by Iran and North Korea.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Sergei Ivanov, speaking during a trip to India where he co-chaired a bilateral commission on military ties, said neither Iran nor North Korea has or will have a capability to build missiles that can reach Europe.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0“They don’t and won’t have intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Mr. Ivanov told reporters. “And a question comes: whom it’s directed against?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, who do you think it’s directed at, Serg? Probably an adversary who supplies our adversaries with anti-aircraft missiles<\/a>, an adversary who blocks necessary sanctions<\/a> in the UN Security Council against enemies of world peace, an adversary whose citizens are selling weapons grade uranium from a plastic bag in their shirt pocket<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Captain Ed at Captain’s Quarters<\/a> goes in depth on this today)<\/p>\n

While taking in fists full of cash from the Iraqi government in the years leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Russians blocked actions against Hussein. What would the Russians do if the US were supporting the Chechnyans in anyway like the Russians are supporting Iran?<\/p>\n

But more importantly, where are the US officials asking in the media\u00c2\u00a0against from whom will those anti-aircraft defend\u00c2\u00a0in Iran? Any air attack on Iran from the US or Israel would be to neutralize their nuclear program which at this moment threatens the stability of the region.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Putin and Russia still see the US as an adversary, and they’re still pursuing their old Soviet policy of engaging us and\u00c2\u00a0containing\u00c2\u00a0our military and economic\u00c2\u00a0strength through proxies.<\/p>\n

It’s time we recognized that the old Soviet Union is alive and well in Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in the\u00c2\u00a0Washington Times AP’s\u00c2\u00a0Vladimir Isachenkov writes that; Russia’s defense minister yesterday harshly criticized U.S. plans … Call Putin what he is; adversary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}