Not Just Bush on Iran

January 15th, 2008

Hey, guess what? You can’t continue to talk about President Bush’s suspicion of Iran as being unilateral. I told you how the Dutch feel about Iran right now and now we have indications that Germany has a similar view.

  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday a U.S. intelligence report saying Tehran had stopped an active nuclear weapons program in 2003 was not an excuse to give the Islamic Republic the “all clear”.

I am sure you will come up with something else to extend your vilification  of our President over, but this won’t be it.

Russia has planned to double its testing of inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and the number of test launches is slated to double in 2009 to 2010.

VLASIKHA (Moscow Region), December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will double its test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles after 2009, the Strategic Missiles Forces (SMF) commander said on Monday.

“The number of launches will almost double after 2009 or 2010,” Colonel General Nikolai Solovtsov told a news conference.

There are a lot of folks out there in denial about the geopolitical intentions of the Kremlin, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. I would like to see comments on this: What material differences do you see between the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia in the geopolitical arena?

The only material difference I can detect is the Kremlin is ensuring they will not be toppled economically, as they were in the 1980’s.