Obama and US-Russia Tensions
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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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.