On May 30, 12:29 pm,

On May 30, 4:55 am, Igor The Terrible

<igor_the_terri...@mad.scientist.com> wrote:

This is too fiunny!

First the morons in the Pentagon are sweating bullets and sounding
alarms over China's exponential escalation in military weapons
upgrades and inventory build up.

Now the Russians have have a surperior ICBM system that can easily
compromise our missile defense systems and Putin warns us not to even
think about developing any countermeasure.

Isn't this great???

Our military has been run into the ground due to neglect and
mismanagement; thanks to globalization many of our best and brightest
have fled or are in the process of fleeing our country in search of
better, and more stable career opportunities, the lion's share of our
upper tier skilled labor is gettting ready to reetire while being
replaced by......? Our health care system, public education system,
infrastructure are all failing big time, we have no control over our
borders, corporations continue to outsource good paying jobs while
pitting tax paying/homeowning workers to compete against illegal
immigrants, crime is soaring and is getting ready to make a huge surge
in less than a couple of years and there will be NOTHING we can do
about it...etc... Looks like us being the world cop and spreader of
democracy is beginning to pay off big time!!! Not to mention out
foreign policy rocks!!!!

Makes one be proud to be an American.

Meanwhile, Igor moves countdown to America's loss of its autonomy from
2020 down to 2014.

Russia says new ICBM can beat any system By STEVE GUTTERMAN,
Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 8 minutes ago

MOSCOW - Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a Kremlin official
boasted could penetrate any defense system, and President
Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in
Europe would turn the region into a "powder keg."

First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Russia tested an
intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple
independent warheads, and it also successfully conducted a
"preliminary" test of a tactical cruise missile that he said could fly
farther than existing, similar weapons.

"As of today, Russia has new tactical and strategic complexes that are
capable of overcoming any existing or future missile defense systems,"
Ivanov said, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. "So in terms of
defense and security, Russians can look calmly to the country's
future."

Ivanov is a former defense minister seen as a potential Kremlin
favorite to succeed Putin next year. Both he and Putin have said
repeatedly that Russia would continue to improve its nuclear arsenals
and respond to U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Poland
and the Czech Republic - NATO nations that were in Moscow's
front yard during the Cold War as Warsaw Pact members.

Russia has bristled at the plans, dismissing U.S. assertions that the
system would be aimed at blocking possible attacks by Iran and
saying it would destroy the strategic balance of forces in Europe.

"We consider it harmful and dangerous to turn Europe into a powder keg
and to fill it with new kinds of weapons," Putin said at a news
conference with visiting Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates.

Russian arms control expert Alexander Pikayev said the new ICBMs
appeared to be part of Russia's promised response to the missile
defense plans and, more broadly, an effort to "strengthen the
strategic nuclear triad - land-based, sea-based and air-based delivery
systems for nuclear weapons - which suffered significant downsizing"
amid financial troubles after the 1991 Soviet collapse.

The ICBM, called the RS-24, was fired from a mobile launcher at the
Plesetsk launch site in northwestern Russia. Its test warhead landed
on target some 3,400 miles away on the Far Eastern Kamchatka
Peninsula, the Strategic Missile Forces said in a statement.

The new missile is seen as eventually replacing the aging RS-18s and
RS-20s that are the backbone of the country's missile forces, the
statement said. Those missiles are known in the West as the SS-19
Stiletto and the SS-18 Satan.

The RS-24 "strengthens the capability of the attack groups of the
Strategic Missile Forces by surmounting anti-missile defense systems,
at the same time strengthening the potential for nuclear deterrence,"
the statement said.

Ivanov said the missile was a new version of the Topol-M, first
commissioned in 1997 and known as the SS-27 in the West, but one that
that can carry multiple independent warheads, ITAR-Tass reported.
Existing Topol-M missiles are capable of hitting targets more than
6,000 miles away.

Pikayev, a senior analyst at the Moscow-based Institute for World
Economy and International Relations, said that little had been
revealed about the missile's development, but that Russia has been
seeking to improve its capability to penetrate missile defense systems
and that the new missile would likely answer to that goal.

He said Russia had been working on a version of the Topol-M that could
carry MIRVs - Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles -
and that its development was probably "inevitable" after the U.S.
withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in 2002 in order
to develop a national missile defense.

Pikayev concurred with the missile forces' statement that the RS-24
conforms with terms laid down in the START-I treaty, which is in
force, and the 2002 Moscow Treaty, which calls for reductions in each
country's nuclear arsenal to 1,700-2,000 warheads.

Ivanov also announced the successful "preliminary" test of an improved
tactical cruise missile designed for a mobile Iskander-M launcher,
ITAR-Tass reported. Ivanov said last year that Russian ground forces
would commission 60 short-range Iskander-M missiles by 2015.

While Ivanov's saber-rattling about missile defense penetration was
clearly aimed at the United States - and at Russians who will vote in
March for a successor to Putin - he suggested Russia's armament
efforts were also aimed to counter a potential treat from the Middle
East and Asia.

"We see perfectly how our eastern and southern neighbors here, there
and everywhere are acquiring short and medium-range missiles," Ivanov
said in televised comments at Kapustin Yar, the southern Russian site
where the tactical missiles were tested.

Ivanov said the 1987 Soviet-American treaty limiting such missiles -
the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, or INF - is no longer
effective because "dozens of countries - many of them along our
borders - have acquired them. All of this is a real danger for us, and
the consequences can be unpredictable."

He emphasized the need to equip the armed forces with "the most
modern, precise weapons" and suggested Russia could arm itself with
missiles whose range exceeds the lower limit of 310 miles set in the
INF. The ranges of Russia's missiles are "for now within the
commitments that Russia has taken upon itself, but I stress: for now,"
IT

and the democrats just gave bush more fast track authority. talk
about a worthless opposition party.
the high priests of free trade keep banging the drums as every last
cent of value is stripped bare out of america.
it is probably to late to reverse this. china has lots of money now,
as well as our technology that was paid for by the american tax payer.
america is so deep into debt, and american have become accustomed to
part time go no where jobs that require little or no thinking.
americans have been indoctrinated into thinking they are to stupid to
innovate and manufacture their own goods and services.
free market economics is so ingrained into the psyche of america, as
well as the government. that all free market problems that are tearing
the country to pieces, can be fixed with free market solutions.- Hide quoted text -

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AMEN!!!!! I couldn't have said it better!!