Sarah Palin Was Right #14: Missile Defense - Russia and Iran

- by upinak

I wrote about Russia a few days ago concerning Iran and why Russia doesn’t seem to care. I also noted that something was amiss, and here it is: Russia said no to sanctions and now is allowing Iran to have a preemptive nuclear option. No regulations, no sanctions, nothing. What is Russia getting out of this deal?

Breitbart shed some light on the situation:

The interview appeared in the daily Izvestia during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as U.S. and Russian negotiators try to hammer out a nuclear arms reduction treaty by December. It also came amid grumbling in Moscow over U.S. moves to modify plans for a missile shield near Russia's borders rather than ditch the idea outright.

Patrushev said a sweeping document on military policy including a passage on preventative nuclear force will be handed to President Dmitry Medvedev by the end of the year, according to Izvestia.

Officials are examining "a variety of possibilities for using nuclear force, depending on the situation and the intentions of the possible opponent," Patrushev was quoted as saying. "In situations critical to national security, options including a preventative nuclear strike on the aggressor are not excluded."

As did Reuters:

"There is no need to frighten the Iranians," Putin told reporters in Beijing.

"We need to look for a compromise. If a compromise is not found, and the discussions end in a fiasco, then we will see," he said, adding that talks of sanctions was "premature" at present.

This stinks, worse then a dead elephant in the room. And what is worse is the fact that Obama is letting Russians visit our nuclear sites. WHY????

Via Foxnews.com:

Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads.

The plan, which Fox News has learned was agreed to in principle during negotiations, would constitute the most intrusive weapons inspection program the U.S. has ever accepted.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said publicly Tuesday that the two nations have made "considerable" progress toward reaching agreement on a new strategic arms treaty.

The 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires in December and negotiators have been racing to reach agreement on a successor.

There are two start agreements, START 1 and START II. The Fox report refers to START II. But take a look at the title on the State.gov website:

THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ON THE REDUCTION AND LIMITATION OF STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE ARMS AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS

Interestingly, all of a sudden it seems that Russia wants to look into this. Putin has been around for a while, so why the sudden interest? I believe it has to do with that Russian-Iranian alliance, that was forged in 2005. Yet no one really talks much about it in the U.S., even now.

Sarah Palin was right about Missile Defense here at home. But is anyone listening? There is good cause for concern.

- u