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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on March 17, 2009, 12:10:03 PM

Title: Russian president orders military rearmament
Post by: bijou on March 17, 2009, 12:10:03 PM
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01367/DmitryMedvedev_1367640c.jpg)

Mr Medvedev's bellicose speech risks causing unease in Washington and will dampen hopes of a rapid improvement in strained East-West relations.

The president told defence ministry officials in Moscow that Nato's continued enlargement ambitions meant that Russia had been left with no choice but to increase its conventional and nuclear combat preparedness.


The threat to Russia's stability had also been increased by local crises, Mr Medvedev added, in an apparent reference to last year's five-day war with Georgia.

"The attempts to enlarge Nato's military infrastructure are not ceasing," said Mr Medvedev. "All this calls for qualitatively modernising our armed forces and reshaping their image. This involves the enhancement of combat preparedness of our troops, primarily the strategic nuclear forces." ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5005261/Russian-president-orders-military-rearmament.html

Reset button anyone?  :whatever:
Title: Re: Russian president orders military rearmament
Post by: TheSarge on March 17, 2009, 12:59:32 PM
Wasn't a member here saying earlier this morning that we don't have to worry about Russia anymore?


 :whatever:
Title: Re: Russian president orders military rearmament
Post by: Mr Mannn on March 17, 2009, 04:10:58 PM
The ruskies are looking forward to walking all over Obama for the next 4 years.
Dictators and commies LOVE a weak  president.
Title: Re: Russian president orders military rearmament
Post by: Mike220 on March 17, 2009, 04:56:32 PM
I'd bet the chaps in Warsaw are a sweating about this, what with all the rhetoric over the missile defense plan from the Russians.

Even if Obambi shitcans it, the Sovie... I mean Russians do love to rattle sabers. 
Title: Re: Russian president orders military rearmament
Post by: ironhorsedriver on March 17, 2009, 07:43:42 PM
This is great. Russia talks about rearming, and Obama is talking about cutting Defense.
Title: Re: Russian president orders military rearmament
Post by: Vagabond on March 19, 2009, 11:42:47 PM
Quote from: Mike220 on March 17, 2009, 04:56:32 PM
I'd bet the chaps in Warsaw are a sweating about this, what with all the rhetoric over the missile defense plan from the Russians.

Even if Obambi shitcans it, the Sovie... I mean Russians do love to rattle sabers. 
Not just them.  The Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, the Moldovans that actually like having their own country, and of course the Georgians. 

I still see it as a national shame that we didn't help Georgia when they were being attacked.
Title: Re: Russian president orders military rearmament
Post by: BannedFromDU on March 20, 2009, 10:22:27 AM
Quote from: Vagabond on March 19, 2009, 11:42:47 PM
Not just them.  The Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, the Moldovans that actually like having their own country, and of course the Georgians. 

I still see it as a national shame that we didn't help Georgia when they were being attacked.



     What is Russia going to use for money? Does anyone think they haven't been slammed by the recession? They barely had a pot to piss in before oil went down. Rearmament to them might just mean "buy more rifles."