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Russia is being set up for another Cold (let's hope) War. The coordinated push is unbelievable (look at the Olympic ban). The only reason I can come up with i

Russia is being set up for another Cold (let's hope) War. The coordinated push is unbelievable (look at the Olympic ban). The only reason I can come up with is that the political class needs an enemy to unite the populace against.

eveningcoffee 10y ago
Latest news is that new Russian mister of the education and science stated that Stalin (a mass murderer) is a good guy and every different opinion is a denigration of the past. http://www.nature.com/news/putin-appoints-church-historian-as-science-minister-1.20472 http://www.nature.com/news/putin-appoints-church-historian-a... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/ministry-purge-may-be-lifeline-embattled-russian-academy-sciences http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/ministry-purge-may-be...
lj3 10y ago
> the political class needs an enemy to unite the populace against. Bingo. It's a distraction. They hope if we're focused on Russia we won't notice or remember the crimes being committed by our own government and the EU. They're a convenient scapegoat. Or so they think. They don't yet realize that screaming "RUSSIAN SPIES!" every few days makes them look like they're having 60's flashbacks like a mental patient.
dogma1138 10y ago
Russia isn't being set up for another cold war unfortunately, it's being set up for a very very hot war. The US has ABM in Europe, Japan, Alaska and anywhere within 500 miles of an ocean. While the current generation of US ABM systems isn't sufficient to counter the current nuclear arsenal of Russia within about 10 years it would be there. Russia has either to develop an ABM shield of it's own which is both geographically and financially not feasible for them to do, or to develop new delivery mechanism and increase its warhead count to counteract the ABM. Russia's moves in renewing their nuclear arsenal pushes even more efforts, resources and political capital into US and NATO ABM deployments and development. So the situation ends being a feedback loop which makes the situation worse and worse and worse. Sadly Russia with 50,000 nuclear warheads with stealth, ECM, and decoy countermeasures capabilities is the good outcome of current policy, the bad outcome is that Russia loses the race and they cannot provide an asymmetrical answer to the ABM which forces them to strike first while they still can. It appears we don't need SkyNet for judgement day we just need congress with a hardon for ballistic missile defense and defense contractors that want to make a buck.
- carsongross 10y ago
  Maybe if they stopped floating their country up so damned close to our war ships...

eveningcoffee 10y ago

Latest news is that new Russian mister of the education and science stated that Stalin (a mass murderer) is a good guy and every different opinion is a denigration of the past. http://www.nature.com/news/putin-appoints-church-historian-as-science-minister-1.20472 http://www.nature.com/news/putin-appoints-church-historian-a... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/ministry-purge-may-be-lifeline-embattled-russian-academy-sciences http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/ministry-purge-may-be...

lj3 10y ago

> the political class needs an enemy to unite the populace against. Bingo. It's a distraction. They hope if we're focused on Russia we won't notice or remember the crimes being committed by our own government and the EU. They're a convenient scapegoat. Or so they think. They don't yet realize that screaming "RUSSIAN SPIES!" every few days makes them look like they're having 60's flashbacks like a mental patient.

dogma1138 10y ago

Russia isn't being set up for another cold war unfortunately, it's being set up for a very very hot war. The US has ABM in Europe, Japan, Alaska and anywhere within 500 miles of an ocean. While the current generation of US ABM systems isn't sufficient to counter the current nuclear arsenal of Russia within about 10 years it would be there. Russia has either to develop an ABM shield of it's own which is both geographically and financially not feasible for them to do, or to develop new delivery mechanism and increase its warhead count to counteract the ABM. Russia's moves in renewing their nuclear arsenal pushes even more efforts, resources and political capital into US and NATO ABM deployments and development. So the situation ends being a feedback loop which makes the situation worse and worse and worse. Sadly Russia with 50,000 nuclear warheads with stealth, ECM, and decoy countermeasures capabilities is the good outcome of current policy, the bad outcome is that Russia loses the race and they cannot provide an asymmetrical answer to the ABM which forces them to strike first while they still can. It appears we don't need SkyNet for judgement day we just need congress with a hardon for ballistic missile defense and defense contractors that want to make a buck.

carsongross 10y ago
Maybe if they stopped floating their country up so damned close to our war ships...