Obama seeks new start in sagging U.S.-Russia relationship
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rajakumar
Obama and Medvedev should create nuclear peace age,as when possible.
Cutting nuclear weapons to 1500 is big step forward for nuclear peace age.
Russian en,rian.ru says US spending on arms is 40-45 percent of global spending. Russia which spends less,needs some nuclear weapons .
The spending of 45 percent of arms sales by USA,is big factor for russia to consider in its defense options
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TheQuestion
The President must tread carefully. Putin has an agenda and it has yet to be seen how Obama will play into it, a helper or a hinerance.
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TheQuestion
*hindrance
Source?
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rajakumar
TheOuestion - source is this web page http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20090703/155423641.html
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YuriOtani
Americans pay too much for their equipment, the Russians get more equipment for the money though the question is how effective it is. About the meeting it is up to Putin, does he want to change their relationship with America? Not sure why Russia needs more nukes. 1500 is vast overkill :(
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TheQuestion
actually the artical you cited states "U.S. defense budget amounting to nearly half (46 percent) of the world’s total" meaning 46% of the worlds defense budget not total budget. And even if that is accurate (which it may or may not be considering your source doesn't source his information) I still fail to see why any country should possess enough raw firepower to reduce the entire planet to a radioactive slag heap.
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realist
Is Obama in Moscow to apologise and crawl to the Russians now as well?
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yokomoc
Let's see, Ronnie my special wingnut calculator sees Obama, Russians & nuclear weapons. Correct response should be "Obama puts snuggling up to socialist commie buddies ahead of protecting Americans"
Where's teleprompter?
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Altria
"Socialist", "liberal ", "progressive" Obama palin' around with KGB comrade Putin.
You don't mess with Putin. Barack's gonna get eaten alive!
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goodDonkey
realist said:
If you want to say Reagan went to Gorbachev to apologise [apologize] and crawl to the Russians as well, but however you characterize Obama you will also have to characterize Reagan in the same way. I know all this must be very confusing for someone who believes the earth is 6000 years old.
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goodDonkey
Altria said:
You are confusing what reality will bring with your own wishes. Isn't this about the Thousandth time you wished Obama would "get eaten alive" since he announced he was running for president? Yet here he is stronger than ever nearly without a scratch. Obama has more power than anyone else in the world and he knows how to use it. Just make sure you don't find yourself hopping up on his plate. You would be but a passing morsel then.
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SushiSake3
Why are conservatives so incredibly insecure?
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cleo
Why the need to 'correct' perfectly good spelling?
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skipthesong
You don't mess with Putin. Barack's gonna get eaten alive!" I bet in a real fight, Obama would knock the ..... out of him. The only thing that scares my about Putin is amount of Russian mobsters in New York and New Jersey now. they seem to be quite a brutal bunch.
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goodDonkey
As far as a fight goes Putin has definitely been well trained and could kick my ass as well as the majority of people who would be dumb enough to mess with him.
Besides Obama is the intellectual; and that is just how we like him. I highly doubt there will be any brawls but there will probably be some sparring of the minds.
Anyway isn't this suppose to be about better relations?
Personally I hope they make some progress on reducing nuclear arms. The U.S. and Russia (Soviet Union at the time) made immense progress in the past. I am looking toward a brighter future.
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Sarge
I think Obama and Putin should have an abs contest.
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smithinjapan
There is no doubt in anyone's mind that bush finishing as president was a step up in the opportunity for good relations with other nations. That is a welcome thing. Let's hope they can succeed in that... how long was the relationship in the toilet for? oh yeah, nearly all of the bush presidency. Good luck, Obama! As two men of intellect, instead of Putin being smart and talking to a chimp, I think he and Obama have a lot of potential to make things better for both nations.
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TheQuestion
I don't know about that, ever watched Russian parliment? Zhirinovsky comes to mind as one of the more entertaining combatants.
Why would either group want anything as destabilizing as that? What would either group do withough the threat of having the evil Russian/Americans glaring angrily over the fence of eastern europe? Nothing would get done.
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amerijap
This is gonna be an acid test for Obama to prove how he can push hard on the former Communist regime on one side and how he can maintain a congenial relationship on the other. Russia has two main channels: Dmitry Medvedey (the President) and Vladimir Putin (former President and an incumbent Prime Minister).
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goodDonkey
Too bad the Anti-Obama comment was removed. It would have been the perfect backdrop to say meanwhile Obama was busy accomplishing real work. In the Fox article the subtext under the headline said:
But their were no details on the training aspect.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5136935.shtml
McFaul,a senior adviser on Russia, highlighted the Russians allowing 4,500 flights of American soldiers and equipment going through Russia, a country he admitted, used to be an adversary. "We're talking about 4,500 flights of American soldiers and equipment going through what used to be our enemy. And they're paying for it. This is something that's very concrete. This is a real war we're fighting." - Fox
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/06/russia-cooperation-afghanistan-shows-degree-turn/
I was thinking news of cooperation on drug was just the usual rhetoric but then I began to realize that with Afghanistan so close to Russia there must be an increasing heroin problem. I could be wrong but I bet Russia has that problem and would love American assistance to try to curb the flow of either opium that has yet to be processed or possibly even pure heroin. All of this is pure speculation on my part but I'll bet I caught the gist of an increasing Russian heroin problem.
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Sarge
"how long was the relationship in the toilet for? oh yeah, neary all of the bush presidency"
Hey, Bush can't help it if Putin was ( and still is ) running things in Russia.
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goodDonkey
Sarge said:
That's just it sarge, Obama can!
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