With my incredible psychic powers, I can hear all the international relations scholars waking up to a large, sudden orgasm. Especially the Realists.
Putin threatens to counter US anti-ballistic missile systems by targeting European cities.
Putin is pissed.
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Russians just likes to make a big deal about everything. It's nothing too serious, I think. Still, I hope that in the end Czech Republic and Poland won't let the US to build those bases.
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Man, it's like a conflict between a bunch of little kids.
Little America puts a folder in front of his lunch so that little Russia can't launch spitballs into it, so he throws a fit and starts a food fight.
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@Roz:
Man, it's like a conflict between a bunch of little kids.
Little America puts a folder in front of his lunch so that little Russia can't launch spitballs into it, so he throws a fit and starts a food fight.
Such is politics, I guess.
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I agree with Roz. Putin has always been paranoid and crazy. I do think Russia is on a trend back to what it was before the fall of the Soviet Union. Why else would so many journalists who are dissidents of Putin be dead?
I am the only one who is somewhat reminded of this episode of the Simpsons?
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Things like this happen when you elect a former KGB.
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I think some of those countries threatend are in fact quite unnecessary (no offend intended).
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Ta ta, threats has has been going on for thousand of years. Putin is just a crazy nutbag.
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Well, Russia does occasionally have to say to the world "we're relevant."
While we may be on better terms since 1991, this is a very strong intrusion of presence into a territory which was traditionally far more dominated by them. How would we feel if the Russians made an agreement to put bases in Canada?
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What?
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What?
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Russia is no longer a major focus of international affairs. China and Iran are much bigger attention-getters lately.
This is like the first-born child acting out because his room and posessions are being co-opted for the new baby.
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@Nix:
I think some of those countries threatend are in fact quite unnecessary (no offend intended).
Hahah, what an douchebag comment.
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You guys shouldn't bother, that bloke is just trying to provoke.
@Roz:
Man, it's like a conflict between a bunch of little kids.
Heh. Yeah, it's pretty easy to draw an allegory. To extend your a little, to make it a little more accurate…
A fat kid who has rich parents makes a poor kid to put a folder between them because a brown kid with foreign parents wants paper and, being foreigner and all, if he gets paper he might make spitballs from it.
An arrogant kid who's parents used to be rich too but bankrupted still has plenty of spitballs left from the time when he and the fat kid used to quarrel all the time and he can't but to think that all actions of the fat kid are still actually against him. The poor kid used to be a bitch of the arrogant kid and, because the arrogant kid isn't able to do much to the fat kid anymore, he instead threatens the poor kid with the spitballs.
But the fat kid doesn't like it when lesser beings interferes his businesses and both starts to argue about which ones partents treats their employees the worst. Meanwhile all of other kids in the dining hall, those who just wants to eat, are hoping that the arrongant kid won't end up using the spitballs because the fat kid has lots of spitballs too - afterall the fat kid was the one who invented the spitball - and if the spitballs start to fly those will hit everybody.
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wasnt the arrogant kid acctually targeting the poor kids folder threatening to knock it down with spitballs?
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Don't worry it's his "monthly bill" if you know what I mean.
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I don't think most of you understand what an antiballistics shield entails when it comes to balance of power. Is Putin shooting his mouth off? Yes, but he has a reason.
Though a shield might sound defensive and harmless, the actual game theory behind it is much more complicated. Launch scenarios drastically change with shields in place.
In nuclear game theory, a missile shield is equivalent to offensive weaponry, and building a shield is a signal to restarting a new arms race. Most of us don't remember anything about the Cold War, but the shit is hardly "irrelevant". Asia is currently on the brink of restarting a miniature coldwar already.
If lobbing nukes seems too abstract, then you can also think smaller: ask yourself why heavy (personal and vehicle) armor is illegal or restricted in many parts of the world, including the US.
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