Russia – Friend or Foe?
It seems to me – upon reflection and across a rather strong cuppa tea – that my post yesterday about Vladimir Putin’s Russia (“Russia Reclaiming Lost Strength and Confidence“) seemed almost too giddy and optimistic and should perhaps have been a more balanced picture of a corrupt, secretive and authoritarian dictatorship that holds contradictory and possibly precarious issues with the United States and is a staunch ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
So, ponder this (below) YouTube video – the launch of a Russian strategic middle that can carry a nuclear charge. It takes less than 10 seconds to arm and launch the 60 foot tall ballistic missile.
Should help us all to remember that Russia still possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction in the world.
R
Posted on February 2nd, 2007 under Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Putin, Russia • 
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June 11th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Is not USA a corrupt, secretive and authoritarian dictatorship that holds contradictory and possibly precarious issues with the Russia and Islamic Arab States and is a staunch ally of Israel? Come on Sirs…India is East is trying very hard to be a strategic partner of USA by killing Muslims in the county.
(Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal, JNU, New Delhi, India- 11-06-2007)