What is the point of rattling Russia?
We are not at war with them. This needs to chill down a notch.
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Exactly. And the fact that Obama “talked-tough” is a complete laugher. The only reason any of these globalist scum hate Russia is because they are someone who stands in the way of US-led NWO Hegemony.
If you really wanna listen to some gut-wrenching Neo-Con cheerleading, tune into Hugh Hewitt every morning. 90% of his show is foreign policy and which new expensive military toy should be funded next.
It isn't all one way. We withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty because they breached it, which they clearly did, and Putin came back and threatened us:
"...He said Russian armed forces could deploy nuclear missiles on ships and submarines in territorial waters outside the US if Washington begins to move new short- and intermediate-range rockets in Europe. “We can put them, given the speed and range [of our missiles] in neutral waters. Plus, they are not stationary; they move, and they will have to find them,” Putin said. “You work it out. Mach 9 and over 1,000 kilometers,” he added, noting the speed and range of the rockets..."
That said, we should deal with Russia on the basis of what they are, a third world economy with a crappy military, producing weapons with technology stolen from the West and supplying weapons to countries that don't have the means to produce advanced weapons themselves.
They aren't stupid enough to really go to war, so we should largely ignore them and their threats and treat with them for what they are.