You know, with friends like Russia, the United States doesn’t need enemies!
I supposed by now most everybody knows that Russia sold Iran 29 of the TOR-M1 tactical SAM’s (Surface to Air Missiles). It was all over the news.
Russia has a HUGE inferiority complex. Yep! They’ve had it since, well; it’s difficult to say how long the Russkies have felt inferior to the rest of the world. Harder even, is it, to declare the causation of this complex. Nevertheless, it’s there.
Russia is also broke. They have one of the worlds largest oil reserves… if not the largest… and yet they’re broke. You see, they don’t have the technology to get that oil out of the ground, transported, and shipped. If you can’t sell it, it does you no good as a money maker.
Add to all those woes this little guy named Putin, former KGB officer, as head of the country and you have what? A mess, that’s what!
Mr. Putin seems bent on restoring the iron-fisted reign of socialism and, in order to do that, he has to stoke the Russian flames of paranoia, a natural state for Russians.
But the biggest problem he faces is… lack of M O N E Y. So, he sells things. Things like: nuclear reactors, and now, he has sold Iran those surface to air missiles to try an protect the nuclear reactor, and other nuclear laboratories, within which, Iran is, no doubt, attempting to build the "Islamic Atom Bomb".
Putin has been slipping assistance to Iran for some time now. But it increased it’s pace when the US went into Iraq back in 2003.
By the way, that Iranian/Russian nuclear reactor is on the Persian Gulf coast. So it’s easy enough for us to take out most any time. The TOR SAM’s are supposed to protect it from air attack.
Putin had better have gotten his money up front. For that reactor is doomed. As any “collections” man will tell you, it is dang near impossible to collect on something that no longer exists!
I guess the world community will take great joy in bashing the US for killing those poor Russian scientist in the nuclear labs in Iran. Well, don’t let it worry you too much. We have fought Russians in Korea, in Vietnam, and in the early days of the first Iraq war. Russians and Americans have been going at each other, pretty much, since we kicked them out of the west coast of the US. It’s nothing new.
None of this bad Russian behavior should be surprising to Americans. But, surprising or not, Putin’s conduct toward Iran just plain sucks!
Longstreet
Hey it's capitalism at it's best, gun dealers, about 10% of them and they are known who they are sell 90% of the guns used in crimes and they sell them ilegally and the gun manufacturers don't want them stopped from selling thos guns. The gun manufacturers dump guns throught those dealers and the gun manufaturers don't want to be responsible. Why should Russia it's a free global marked. You'd better believe if I was sitting on worthless spent uranium and some rag head (Zarkowi say) offered me millions in cash, hey it's all good for profit, that's the republican motto. What he does with that stuff is out of my control I am only the supplier. And as I see it if you break in my house and I shoot you it's your fault, so I would tell world leaders if you don't want the mess don't enter! The sovernty of all nations must be respected no matter what their views are. Iran has actually done nothing to us, they want nuclear energy, they do not wish to burn oil, and with oil prices as they are that's one less nation on the teet of oil, and as a memer of a nation who depends so much on 100 year old technology for transportation I fully support them in building nuclear power plants.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: I find it absolutely incredible, unbelievable, that anyone could walk around, and funcfion, in today's society, and be as uninformed and as ill- informed as you, Sir.
ReplyDeleteSurely you wrote the above in jest! For it is totally unexplainable otherwise!
Longstreet
I only wrote it Mr. Longstreet as a jest because Bush ok'd spying on each other in the U.S. and I wanted to see how long before his "Thought Police" would be knocking on my door. I only pray for peace Longstreet, Merry Christmas: From a liberal to a conservative
ReplyDeleteThank you for those kind regards, sir. A Merry Christmas to you and yours!
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