Putin warns of new missile crisis

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Friday October 26, 2007 · 9:40 AM PDT

2007/10/26 · 09:40

Breaking?!

We knew the Republicans were keen on the good ole' days, but this seems taking it a little too far.
From the BBC:

Russian President Vladimir Putin says US plans for a missile shield could precipitate a situation similar to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.

So let's see:
Never ending war in Iraq: check
Possible war in Iran: check
Middle East outta control: check
America hated abroad: check
Oil approaching $100: cha-ching-check
Russia rattling swords: check

Besides all this, they're doing a heckuva job!

More from Vlad:

Asked in Lisbon about US plans for missile bases in eastern Europe, President Putin said the threat to Russia's borders was akin to that faced by the US during the Cuban crisis.

"I would remind you how relations were developing in an analogous situation in the middle of the 1960s," he said.

"Analogous actions by the Soviet Union when it deployed rockets on Cuba provoked the Cuban missile crisis," he said.

"For us, technologically, the situation is very similar."

A shield to block an Iranian threat seems to me to be the utmost folly. Wishful thinking worthy of Ronald Reagan and Star Wars. This is not the era of massive attacks by the other hegemonic power...but of course that's not the point, is it. The contracts for the missile shield is fat and lucrative. We are in the era of an out of control military industrial complex.
I just hope it doesn't kill us all.

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