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Originally Posted by S-2
Firral,
The shield will happen. The only reason it won't is if used as a bargaining chip for something better. Russia has been offered a large role in the shield program which has been rejected.
That's too bad. It was in your interest to participate. It remains in our interests to continue through with the project. So tha's what we'll likely do.
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About the basic purpose of a shield - the control of air space over Russia, some your scientists speak even. Look at the globe, why Czechia and Poland, instead of Greece and Turkey? That is easily seen through, however your politicians continue to try to make the good face, at bad game.
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Originally Posted by S-2
Our spheres of influence come and go. They are determined by our existing allies, military and economic aid, and points/policies of convergence. Your's are envisioned as permanent, attained coercively, and are neo-imperialistic. Thus they attain little leverage and become onerous burdens.
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After disorder of the USSR we have lost the spheres of influence. Now we have returned, and slowly, but persistently we return them to ourselves. It that causes in you a nervous trembling and irritation. It why your mass-media pour tons of dung to Russia. It why Putin for your mass-media became the dictator, and Yeltsin (the shot House of the Government in 1993 from tank guns) was the true democrat.
All is very simple. In business speak, " it is business, anything personal ".
But you do not perceive it easy: in mass-media you call us dictatorship, Putin - the tyrant, Russian - spiteful aggressors. Each Russian having Internet or the western channels on TV sees it (these are 25-40 % of the population). It causes irritation as is rough lie.
Thus, you burn down bridges of cooperation and build walls of misunderstanding.
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Originally Posted by S-2
We'll live with Serbia and Iran's wrath. Especially Iran's. Especially with a shield directed at them. Russia will learn to live with the unpleasantness of a missile defense shield aimed at Iran from Poland and Slovakia (or wherever) I suppose.
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Then you should study to live with such things (to like it or not), as for example
delivery of the Russian weapon in your opponents, tests of new rockets, blocking of your purposes and decisions in the politician, etc.
It only dissymetric reaction, is more than anything. Passive always loses, unless not so?