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Jun 04 '07 by stubby43
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Russia threatens to aim missiles at Europe

Moscow threatens to aim missiles at Europe

"If the American nuclear potential grows in European territory, we will have to have new targets in Europe," Mr Putin said.

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Putin threatens to aim nuclear missiles at europe

In an interview ahead of this week's G8 summit, President Putin has threatened to point Russian missiles towards Europe for the first time since the end of the Cold War, if the United States builds a defence shield in Eastern Europe. This report from Rupert Wingfield-Hayes:

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If President Putin's words are anything to go by, it looks like being a pretty stormy G8 summit in Germany this week. First up was the United States: Mr Putin poured scorn on its plans to build a new missile shield in Eastern Europe. If it goes ahead, Russia would, he said, be forced to respond by pointing its own missiles at European targets. It would be the first time since the end of the Cold War that Europe has been directly targeted by Russian nuclear missiles.
He then went on to accuse the West of hypocrisy in criticising Russia's human rights record. Responding to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he said the United States is the main violator of freedoms and human rights around the world and he added that France, Germany and Britain have problems of their own.

Finally he accused Britain of foolishness in trying to extradite a former KGB officer for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. President Putin said Britain knew Russia's constitution prohibits such an extradition. By pushing ahead, he said, Britain was engaging in PR and politics, and any way you look at it, it's pure foolishness.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, Moscow

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cliffdogg on Jun 04 '07 at 5:16pm

...oh noes!!

Bramish on Jun 04 '07 at 5:17pm

I shall deflect them with my onion breath.

sometimessane on Jun 04 '07 at 5:20pm

no, it's officially part of asia although it borders with eastern europe.

Bramish on Jun 04 '07 at 5:22pm

Nope, it's in Europe. Its most populated city I believe.

stubby43 on Jun 04 '07 at 5:24pm

Yes Moscow is in europe but it is in the very far eastern europe, what Putin is doing is threatening a start to a cold war (litterally, he states that the americans are restarting an arms race in europe).

America plans to build a missile defense grid and is building bases in poland, you say its to protect us against rogue states such as Iran and Korea but Putin feels the real target is Russia.

Now weather he is serriously considering it or not is debatable as is russia's strength but no matter how you look at it this is one of the most serrious events in history because were the closest to a nuclear war than we've been in a very long time.

icebar on Jun 04 '07 at 5:25pm

eurasia

sometimessane on Jun 04 '07 at 5:25pm

i think that the length of the country means that it's kind of both.

Kizule on Jun 04 '07 at 5:26pm

Shit.

Anyone notice what's been happening to Russian democracy lately, on a similar note?

Bramish on Jun 04 '07 at 5:27pm

sometimessane on Jun 04 '07 at 5:25pm

i think that the length of the country means that it's kind of both.

Well no, since Moscow is a city, in the part of Russia that lies in Europe.

stubby43 on Jun 04 '07 at 5:28pm

Just to clarify, Russia is both apart of Russia and apart of asia, which has cause nightmares for running the country through out its history, one because its so vast and two because its incredibly culturally diverse, for a long time it was backward for a european nation but on the other hand forward for an asiatic nation.

stubby43 on Jun 04 '07 at 5:33pm

Another article

To be honnest it seems more like a power play to boost his confidence with the Russian people and to get them to look away from their worsening human rights record, but if niether side backs down we could fall into a new cold war.

sometimessane on Jun 04 '07 at 5:34pm

bramish - i was refering to russia as a whole but am aware that moscow is one of if not the most westernly russian city.

on a side note, thanks for the shirt, did the money go through alright?

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 5:37pm

i cant wait until we get a new president

im sure Bush is helping this at all

I want to go to Russia someday

anyone been there?

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 5:37pm

isnt*

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 5:40pm

if i had my choices of ways to die

nuclear fire would be up near the top

sjgrovo on Jun 04 '07 at 5:46pm

this so sucks and is super scary. America: we suck! :(

sometimessane on Jun 04 '07 at 5:52pm

"if i had my choices of ways to die

nuclear fire would be up near the top"

why?

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 5:52pm

why not? itd be painless and instant

sometimessane on Jun 04 '07 at 5:56pm

haha ok then, maybe you could do a bauer and fly the bomb away from a highly populated area to prevent millions of people dying.

you'd be a hero!

coolchika on Jun 04 '07 at 5:57pm

it's gonna be another world war...

The Crackers on Jun 04 '07 at 6:01pm

shit, this is a bad time to be russian:(

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 6:01pm

maybe if I new what a bauer is

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 6:02pm

oh your Russian?

cool

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 6:02pm

knew*

margolove on Jun 04 '07 at 6:02pm

... wow

I just had to write an enormous paper on Russia's possible return to Cold War policies/potential threat to Europe/predictions

and uh.. I'm wrong already.

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 6:03pm

lol coolchika you sound like one of those old men that says the world is coming to an end

coolchika on Jun 04 '07 at 6:03pm

hahahahah isneked that made me laugh. really hard.

The Crackers on Jun 04 '07 at 6:17pm

yeah i'm russian

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 6:18pm

then go to this blog right now! emk

http://www.threadless.com/profile/345166/isneked/blog/227155/we_don_like_no_foreigners_around_these_parts

isneked on Jun 04 '07 at 6:19pm

coolchika have you seen alfred hitchcoks' the birds

thats what I was thinking of :)

steviec on Jun 04 '07 at 7:44pm

There's a presidential election in Russia soon. Isn't it possible that Putin's only ramping up the rhetoric to please the nationalists and to score some political points by seeming the "tough guy" and standing up to the Americans?

Also, what do you think GWB would say if Russia placed a missile defense system around Cuba? Just like the Missile Crisis in '62, I don't think it would go down too well...

margolove on Jun 04 '07 at 7:46pm

Putin can't run again, though. His two terms are up. In all likelihood he's going to hand-pick his successor, and it'll probably be someone pretty similar. I think I remember reading somewhere that Putin will probably go back to being head of his party (United Russia?) and still play a pretty big role in politics. He's been sort of ambiguous about his plans.

stubby43 on Jun 05 '07 at 5:43am

It doesnt really matter, Russia isnt capable of putting a missile defense system in cuba, the fact of the matter is by 2012 Russia will only have 100 nukes, yes that can do alot of damage but the america has more. In a hypothetical situtation where russia puts nukes in cuba America can just say no your not.

One of the russians worries is that it will encourage the Chinese to start building nukes on a far larger scale and china is far more capable of this than Russia.

Its a difficult situation but Putin is trying to get america to back down for its own defense, even if america has no interest in war with russia (or anything related) theres alot of pressure from china, some of the russian territories close to china are dependant on them, they only produce 4 months of food and the other 8 months comes from china. Its not un reasonable to imagine these territories braking away from russia to join china.