Pressing the US-Russia reset button
Posted on 11. Mar, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Events, Feedback, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Politics, Top Stories
Thanks for the Comment & Submission Jimmy
>>>The US would like Russia not to sell advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Iran<<<
I’m not from New York, so can someone please tell me: How does the United States benefit if Iran is deprived of the ability to defend itself from the Israeli F-16s our tax dollars have purchase for them?
As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the first time on Friday, it is time for the new atmospherics to start being turned into new policies.
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The meeting in Geneva follows a decision on Thursday by Nato foreign ministers – Mrs Clinton among them – to resume relations between Nato and Russia. These were broken off after the Russian action in Georgia last year.
The Clinton-Lavrov talks will be followed by the first meeting between Presidents Obama and Medvedev on 2 April in London, where they will both attend the G20 economic summit.
So, as Vice-President Jo Biden recently said it would be, the reset button on US relations with Russia has been pressed. Mrs Clinton has herself spoken of a “fresh start.”
What is likely to be written on this blank screen?
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The broad question is whether Moscow and Washington want to act as partners or as competitors.
Relations between Russia and the West in general have deteriorated markedly over the last few years. Is this confrontational approach now to be ended?
The answer is that things should improve but that it is not all going to be sweetness and light.
These are some of the issues that have to be addressed.
Missile defence is probably the toughest problem on the table.
Mr Obama has reportedly proposed that a way out might be to get Russian help in stopping Iran from developing an inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM).
If there were no Iranian long-range missiles, the argument runs, there would be no need for missile defence, at least not in Eastern Europe where its planned deployment has upset Moscow.
The difficulty with this proposal is that Iran seems intent on developing its rockets, even though it is some years away from an ICBM, and it is not clear how Russia might deter it. BBC News Source
The Russians are our racial brothers.
Anybody ever hear of something called the Strela-Bloc? This is a low altitude rocket that remotely goes off when the sound level of an airplane DIMINISHES. Good for some fixed-wing but hell on rotary wing.
Better believe the Russians are no fools and are working on an anti-drone missile.
When your country has been invaded by Swedes, French and Germans, you get very concerned about these things.
Putin got rid of the “oligarchs” and restored some order to that state. Yeltsin was a courageous man but also a drunken man.