Yury Baluyevsky, the chief of Russia’s general staff, said in an interview with the Russia Today TV channel that the Russian Armed Forces were under no obligation to protect the world from the U.S. Answering a question as to whether or not the world could count on Russia to defend it from “insidious American plans,” Baluyevsky replied, “Today, there is no need to be afraid of the Russian Armed Forces. However, I do not believe that the Russian military is obliged to defend the world from the evil Americans”.
Baluyevsky said last Thursday that Russia would no longer be bound by current weapons and equipment limitations after its moratorium on the CFE Treaty comes into force.
The chief of Russia’s military general staff also told the Russia Today TV channel that the CFE Treaty put Russia at a disadvantage. “It was an onerous treaty for Russia. It was a treaty that Russia alone honored,” he said.
Asked why Russia had signed the document in the first place, Baluyevsky said that at the time, in 1990, the goal was to avert a war, and the treaty effectively served its purpose.
Baluyevsky is one of a number of people called cynics at the End of the Cold War – because their analysis was that, with no other superpower to provide a check to the United States, Uncle Sugar would set out to build a new Roman Empire.
Good thing he was wrong, eh?
What a serious load of crap. Protect the world from the US?! From the US doing what exactly? It is the height of idiocy to think that the US is “trying to build a a new Roman Empire.” On the one hand, the liberals say we are stretched too far and cannot even occupy Iraq and on the other they are saying we are going to take over the world militarily? Which is it?
“With no other superpower…”
And what would that make the Chinese?
um, noooooo, actually what liberals are saying is that we are stretched too far so trying to build a new roman empire is a bad idea.
the neocon cowboys in the bush camp are currently bankrupting the country on a fool’s errand to quell the middle east through military force, something that has been tried without success over the millenia.
not that common sense or knowledge ever enters into neocon thought.
So how come no one cared when the US got involved in the former Yugoslavia, Haiti, or Somalia?
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#3 everyone cared those incursions, but they aren’t same thing.
you see the case of iraq, the war was explicitly started by us, for our own personal reasons. the same will be true of iran.
in the instances you mentioned, well those wars were well under way by the time we got there — we just wanted to help end them.
you could argue that they’re the same thing, but then you would sound stupid.
#2
The conclusion that anyone is trying to make another Roman Empire is idiotic. It is the delusional fantasy of a person that hates Bush so badly that they will attribute any crazy idea to him. It is tinfoil hat stuff.
What would suggest we do with the middle-east? Let them duke it out with nukes because that is what will happen eventually. It is expected that Iran will develop and/or acquire nuclear weapons within the next decade. What would you suggest we do about that: sit around the campfire singing kumbayah?
Gronk,
What war was occurring in Belgrade, or Serbia proper, that compelled us to bomb that helpless nation into submission?
Look who shows up to say Beluyevsky is wrong. Tee hee.
PC neocons with wedgies.
It’s just spreading the Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS).
Cold – Blame Bush
Hot – Blame Bush
Poor – Blame Bush
Taxes – Blame Bush
War – Blame Bush
Hangnail – Blame Bush
Planet dying – Blame Bush
Too stupid to sound anything but like a parrot – Blame yourself
I hold responsible for a lot of shit but good grief, this blog has become a cesspool BDS nitwits.
How about a technology posting?
Oh wait, we can’t. We have to find more shit to blame Bush for. If I wanted a liberal diatribe and a healthy dose of their pablum I go to moveon.org or the dailykos.
great cartoon
The Romans knew how to fight.
#9 – bye
Fortunately, most blogs rely on long term evals of traffic and return – rather than nutballs whining about topics that offend their politics and religion.
One of the outstanding characteristics of the best posts and comments I find here – is the willingness to confront topics that the no-balls crowd at most gadget blogs eschew.
wow, that’s rich.
Grog -
Apparently to you, Saddam’s attempt to assassinate the elder President Bush does not count as a declaration of war?
Smart answer to a biased question. “insidious American plans”.
What the person is really asking is: “So we can go around blaming the US for all the world’s ills. We can go around killing each other. We can perform genocide on our own people. And you are gonna to unconditionally back us. Right?”
His answer. “No”.
you see the case of iraq, the war was explicitly started by us, for our own personal reasons
I guess freeing a country from a sadistic, brutal dictator is our own personal reason. Saddam and his family tortured and killed thousands, they are better off dead.
How about a technology posting?
We sometimes get them here, but some douche always manages to turn it into a anti Bush post somehow.
ggualia,
What about the current sadistic, brutal dictator running Pakistan?
The world doesn’t hate us for our freedom, they hate us for our hypocrisy.
I am not seeing any Bush bashing here at all. This post is just a statement of fact regarding the Russian guy and his opinions. Generally speaking the blog reflects America. In America Bush has a 25-percent approval rating. Same here.
I am quite interested in the fact that People think that China is a superpower. It smacks of the idea of inventing an enemy. China has a long and well recorded history. I would advise those of you who think China is something to be afraid of to look at it.
John