Obama’s tapping of Robert Gates as Defense Secretary it is hard to imagine any major shift on the issue of missile defense. This is also the case when it comes to Hillary Clinton regarding U.S. support for rapid NATO membership for former Soviet states.
As Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the foreign relations committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament, recently said, “These nominations inspire no optimism whatsoever.”
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The article looks at the Russian interests in self defense, and foresees major trouble with relations between Russia and the United States if policies of Gates and Clinton are carried into the next administration.
A system that will never work may force Russians, who do not know whether it will work, to begin seriously treating the U.S. as an adversary. The missile defense system will never work against any intelligent and determined threat. It is a fool's system.
Superb analysis and reporting, not to be missed by anyone interested in US foreign policy, defense strategy, the military-industrial complex, etc. Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates have both been entusiastic supporters of grotesquely large US "defense" spending in general, and the vastly expensive and useless ABM system in particular.
Bob Gates and Hillary Clinton are best buddies with the armaments manufacturers lobbying for aburdly expensive, useless ABM system that antagonizes Russia needlessly. Gates is even trying to get an ABM system into the Gulf, and he exaggerates the "threat" posed by Iran in order to try to sell the program.
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