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Originally Posted by Stan187
The instability comes from Russia not being able to control and account for all of its nuclear armaments, not from other countries attempting to make sure that if those missiles go off they will be able to intercept them.
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Why do you think Russia is not able to control and account for its nuclear armaments? Russia has a huge missile arsenal for many years and I haven’t heard anything about nuclear control problems.
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Originally Posted by Stan187
So the Russians didn't ever try to use control of oil and natural gas as an extension of their foreign policy? And Ukraine and Belarus haven't had any interruptions in their supplies via pipelines in the last year? And it doesn't have any strained relations with say Georgia, or Moldova, or its other neighbors that it tries to stronghand?
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The main problem of Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia and Moldova is that they want to be independent from Russia, but they sharply don’t want to be independent from cheap Russian gas and oil. Russia just demanded to pay full value for its products that is paid by European countries, nothing more. While Germany and Poland pay for gas $250, why Ukraine is allowed to pay only $50? Now, after numerous cries and scandals from other side Russia have managed to rise the cost to $100 for these countries. As for Georgia, it would be wondering if Russia continued the policy of economic preferences for this hostile state. Russia’s position is fair : pay the money – get the gas. They are independent nations, they self should solve all their issues including economic.
In this case the blackmailers are the Ukraine and Belarus, that wished to parasitize on Russia and tried to threaten Russian-European energy communications.
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Originally Posted by zraver
trace a line from Iran to Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, and London what country do they pass over? Now trace a line from Russia to those same cities and what country do they not pass over? hint- Chezk republic. if the US wante dto build a system to reduce Russia's nuclear strike cpaability vs europe it would place systems in the Baltic, Norway, and Poland.
Also ask the Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland about Russia's energy blackmail scheme.
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Zraver, if we trace a line from Iran to Paris, Czech republic appears somethere in the middle of this line. Where, of course, the Iranian ballistic missile, that is prospected to intercept, will be in the highest point of its flight, about 500 km in space. Where there are no any capability and any sense to intercept this missile. By the way, Iran doesn’t have such missiles that able to reach Paris, Berlin or Copenhagen. That would be much more logically to deploy anti-missile system against Iran in Turkey or in Arabia to force down any Iranian missiles on their take-off heading while the speed is not too high. And against North Korea – in South Korea and Japan. Or it wouldn't? Why US do not do this way? The explanation of anti-missile system in Czechia as anti-Iran seems simply like excuse and covering for real intentions.