Saturday, November 8, 2008

Expect more of the same on the arms race front

As JP Morgan once enunciated that it is essential to have a foot in every camp, so the money masters have Henry for the Republicans and Zbigniew for the democrats.

Historically, every American administration sets the stage for the next one, and every new president will complete what his predecessor has started. The recent war in Georgia, as well as the ballistic missiles pact that binds Poland and the Czech Republic to the US has set the stage for Obama's advisers to choreograph the next conflict with the Russians.

Sure enough the Russians are responding with escalating rhetoric and threats. On Wednesday, 11-05-08 the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated in his first state of the nation address to parliament that Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missile systems in its exclave of Kaliningrad "to neutralize if necessary the anti-ballistic missile system in Europe."

Anatoly Tsyganok, head of the Moscow-based Military Forecast Center stated that the deployment of Iskander missile systems with a range of 500 km (310 miles) [in the Kaliningrad region] would allow Russia to target the entire territory of Poland and also parts of Germany and the Czech Republic.

So here we are, once again, a new American administration, a new conflict, a new monster to quell, and a new arms race.
 
 

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