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Old 12-15-2007, 15:39 PM   #60 (permalink)
Feanor
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Originally Posted by foxhound_nn View Post
It's a strategy of XVIII century. And now this territory is only a burden for Moscow.
The best way to use that territory now is to leave their economic independence, but still use their territory to deploy weapon by political means
Already being done. The Belarussian military is integrated with the Russian one to such an extent that Putin had no problems threatening to use Belarussian territory to deploy Iskander complexes to target the new ABM systems in Eastern Europe, and the Belarussian PVO is far larger then Belarus needs or can afford.......
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