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  PsychoHosebeast1 month, 1 week ago

  I notice it doesn't say anything about Cuba allowing this...

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    jordan111 month, 1 week ago

    Well, isn't this just dandy! Deja Vue of the Cuban Missile crisis! What? Conservatives didn't like the way Kennedy handled it & want another go at it? This is just too much!

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      blainegarrett1 month, 1 week ago

      wow. this is crazy

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  bigurn1 month, 1 week ago

  It also doesn't say anything about what might or might not be on the planes. Most of the Soviet-era munitions are depleted or sold. The skill sets for maintaining this fleet are also gone. I'm not sure this is much of a threat.

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    HannibalBarca1 month, 1 week ago

    But Iraq was ???ROTFLMAO

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  gamahuche1 month, 1 week ago

  I had the same thought immediately PHB.
  A real trip down memory lane..
  The first political activity I was involved in as main organiser..
  Nothing surprising about this at all. Spheres of influence. The US stomped on what the Russians believe is theirs in Europe and probably correctly surmised that the US would be keeping an eye on them. This is the obvious response.
  It will get worse before it gets better; it will be a huge test for the new US President.

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  jovial1 month, 1 week ago

  Cuba is minutes from Florida. Russia sees itself as losing it's competitive edge as a deterrent to the American military. It looks like "grandstanding" because we are deploying those missile shields close to their borders. Let's see if someone calls their bluff.

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    TheRealizer1 month, 1 week ago

    Are we sure its a bluff? Russia doesn't have to borrow money from China to maintain their military..

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  Raymontee1 month, 1 week ago

  I think that Obama is going to make Cuba a state of the USA. - Rayganye.

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  Raymontee1 month, 1 week ago

  I think that Obama is going to make Cuba a state of the USA. - Rayganye.

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  Teech1 month, 1 week ago

  Old, relatively slow, easy to detect and shoot down bombers are different from missiles.

  I can't see the young president of Russia deploying OFFENSIVE hardware to counter radar which is DEFENSIVE. Unless, of course, there's more to this than we are being told.

  I hope history doesn't really repeat itself.

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    Justice4All1 month, 1 week ago

    And B-52's are not easy to shoot down?

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  Teech1 month, 1 week ago

  A more dangerous threat is Dumbya asking, "Hey, what's in that briefcase you guys are always carrying around?"

  The most dangerous threat to the free world is even considering McInsane as a President, because he KNOWS what's in that case.

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  icono11 month, 1 week ago

  Interesting.
  Deja Vu again anyone.

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  PsychoHosebeast1 month, 1 week ago

  The really big question is, when will we be allowed to actually respond to posts?
  Teech--the problem isn't the president of Russia, it's Putin, who will run his country the same way Stalin did. He believes he's Kruschev reincarnated.
  I'm picturing Russia pushing the subject, and Cuba turning to the U.S. because they're tired of being sh!t on like some third world sh!thole, used and dumped according to the whim of the communists. Now, if Russia had kept up relations with Cuba, it might be different, but even before the wall went down they'd pretty much dropped them, and once the USSR broke up, they didn't give a flying f*. Now all of a sudden they want to turn Cuba into a target? I doubt they're (the Cubans) real big on that idea.

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    tkyrchncs1 month, 1 week ago

    Russia is not the Soviet Union, by a long shot.

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  nikkibabe1 month, 1 week ago

  If Bush can put up missile shields in Russia's backyard, why not Russians station bombers in Bush's backyard?

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  tkyrchncs1 month, 1 week ago

  Why do we want the missiles and radar in Eastern Europe? Are we just poking the Bear? Whatever. No European, Asian, or African strike capabilities in the Americas. At all. Ever. For any reason.

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  drpolyphemus1 month, 1 week ago

  It isn't missile shields silly. It is MISSILES. Bush wants to put missiles in the Russian backyard. Russia's response is to hint through un-named sources that they might just do the same.

  BTW I hate the new Propellor look and function.

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  Teech1 month, 1 week ago

  PHB: Cuba turning to the U.S. for help would be something! Talk about making history!

  Question is, what would the Bush Admin do?

  Allowing American tourists unrestricted access to Cuba would go a long way in warming relations and would be a boon for Cubans.

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  bluetexasvalley1 month, 1 week ago

  Teech, I expect if Cuba is going to turn to the U.S., it won't be until the new administration is in, provided Obama is president.

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  Mdiar1 month, 1 week ago

  Well, who wasn't expecting this?

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  Justice4All1 month, 1 week ago

  So why does the US maintain the B-52 fleet? They must not be that easy to shoot down.

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  tchef1 month, 1 week ago

  Why are WE installing a missile shield to protect Europe anyway? If they want one why can't they install it themselves?

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  nikkibabe1 month, 1 week ago

  It is not WE installing a missile shield. It is Bush, the war monger with itching fingers to trigger conflicts that is doing.

  God willing if there is a Democratic President in 2009, he should cancel everything and let Europeans protect themselves. Who would they protect themselves from?

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  Mdiar1 month, 1 week ago

  "Who would they protect themselves from?"
  
  To pretend as if Europe has made no enemies over two centuries of imperialism is naive. By the same token the idea of a missile shield is idiotic and Europeans are certainly capable of protecting themselves from outside forces when they are united as a single force. Unfortunately, the EU will just be another imperialistic force in fifty years or so if it ever gets off the ground.

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  BB641 month, 1 week ago

  This would violate the agreement the US and USSR signed concerning the Cuba. The US would consider this an act or near act of war. You would see our "retired" weapons systems such as the MX, F117 and Pershing II; ungraded and redeployed. While the Russians are flush with cash, their technology is still yesterdays. In fact, the FSS, replacement for the KGB, there are now as many or more Russian spies in the field. Once again trying to steal what they can't build. It is very much like the Cold War all over again.

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