I’ve been thinking about Ahmadinejad’s confident claims that he can take out the US and Israel - and achieve dominance for Islam.
How could he possibly do that without the help of thermonuclear bombs in the multi-megaton range? We also call them hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs, and they are beyond his capability to make. And, I can’t [...]
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Posted in Iran, Russia, War fighting on Aug 28th, 2007
So, how do we stop this ‘Genocidal Answer’ that I wrote about yesterday?
I don’t know.
Russia would love to have Israel out of the way, but they really don’t hate Israel. They’re indifferent. Destroying Israel would just be business. No hard feelings.
And, don’t point the finger at Putin. He doesn’t necessarily hate Israel. He’s just doing what he thinks [...]
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Posted in Russia on Aug 27th, 2007
Magda raised an interesting question. How can Israel oppose Russian interests?
The answer is that she doesn’t. Not directly.
It’s that ‘not directly’ part that’s the problem. You see, Russia wants to rebuild a power base. It can’t have its old power base, ‘cuz Europe has most of it. So, it needs to look elsewhere for client [...]
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Posted in Russia on Aug 24th, 2007
I remember the Cold War - a war that was all about defeating Communism wherever it existed. There were books printed that said things like, “You can trust a Communist to be a Communist”. And, we bought the books and heard the speeches, waved the flag and utterly missed the point.
The point should never have been about political [...]
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Posted in Russia on Aug 23rd, 2007
In response to my blog article on the 17th, ‘Here We Go Again‘, Tedders made a good point. Russian military technology lags far behind that of the US. In a direct confrontation, Russia can’t really win.
But, Russia isn’t stupid; they know that they don’t have to be able to win. They just need to be [...]
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