[redgolum]

Interesting times.

[kc8ukw]

who is to step down at the end of his second term next year...

Sort of true.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So what was that about the U.S. Congress blocking funding for the development of new nuclear weapons to modernize our force sometime back...?

[Nowhere Man]

What’s next, Tsar Bomba II?

[SteamShovel]

Putin suggested that Iraq had been invaded because of its oil wealth and assured one caller that energy-rich Russia could not suffer the same fate. To think so, he said, was "political erotica."

Putin is delusional if he thinks we would WANT to invade Russia for it's "riches".

Can you imagine the economic drain that would be?

PUTIN, we want to be partners in freedom. You are the one who wants to be OUR adversary.

[Dogbert41]

Putin is insane. The Russian people should take him out as soon as possible.

[Chode]

yes it's the dreaded DOOMSDAYWEAPON... and now there will be a DoomsDayWeapon GAP!!!

[EGPWS]

Putin was in Tehran on Tuesday, the first visit to Iran by a Kremlin leader since World War II.

Joining the axis of evil?

[C210N]

announces new nuclear weapon...

But before putting all those Rubles into new weapons, perhaps they might want to try and get the bugs out of the radar systems they are selling that seem to be all the rage around the world (well, at least in Syria and Iran).

[doorgunner69]

Putin said that Russia would build another nuclear submarine next year and was also planning a "completely new" atomic weapon.

I have read that nuclear weapon design in the US and Russia is considered to be a very mature science, with little to be improved on other than details.

Got to wonder what "completely new" is all about, or is it just hyperbole about some new delivery system?

[quant5]

Cold War 2 has begun. What’s his new ‘atomic’ weapon? The MX missle 2? We should build powerful moon lasers on the moon to vaporize anything down to 2 miles deep. Do ya think they would be mouthing off then if we had this? Nope, I doubt it. Too bad that reality is probably two or three decades away...

[Wiggins]

Putin is trying to do his best to support the Democrats by blaming the Bush Administration for starting a new arms race. Putin is aware that most media outlets will do their best to convey the message in that manner. Putin is hoping for another Carter type administration to try and close the gap between Russia and the U.S.

[EGPWS]

Putin Pelosi called the US intervention in Iraq a "dead end" and called on Washington to set a deadline for the withdrawal of troops.

Putin Pelosi has previously said (s)he is considering taking up the prime minister's post after leaving the Kremlin, but (s)he appeared to scotch speculation that (s)he wants constitutional changes transfering power from the Kremlin to the government.

"Imagine that people come to power who do not agree with these decisions, it would be easy to reverse them.... It is therefore extremely important that parliament is effective," Putin Pelosi said.

(S)he said (s)he was "against cutting the powers of the president of Russia the USA," Interfax said.

[ari-freedom]

Putin what are you thinking? who are you fighting in chechnya? the same muslim terror we are dealing with in iraq and iran!

And Israel is the home to so many russians who still go back and forth to russia. they are threatened by your policies

[plain talk]

Moscow's insistence on negotiations was better than "threats, sanctions or even force."

Russia should practice what it preaches.

[SampleMan]

Its time for the Russians to get a bloody nose. Best to learn their lesson now, while they are still playing games.

[listenhillary]

Time to go full speed ahead with domestic production of oil, oil shale and several hundred nuke plants. The $90 a barrel oil is making Putin giddy.