Putin making Bush look like the fool that he is.

[If we refuse to be belligerent assholes and take care of our own
people, we will not face the peril America now faces for having shot
their wad.]

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Putin says Russia doesn't want return to Cold War
13.05.2006 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/russia/80247-putin-0

President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Russia wants to maintain
normal relations with the West and doesn't need a replay of the Cold
War, news reports said.

"We will be building our relations with our Western partners in a
patient and calm manner," Putin said during a meeting with state
television executives and journalists, according to the ITAR-Tass,
Interfax and RIA Novosti news agencies.

"I have already said that we will not return to the Cold War period ...
in our policy or defense strategy," Putin said, adding that he
underlined that message in his state of the nation address.

In Wednesday's speech, Putin responded sarcastically to U.S. Vice
President *** Cheney's criticism of Russia's democratic record and
said that the nation needs a strong military to resist foreign
pressure.

*** "If we don't poke our nose into somebody else's business and don't
declare the whole world a zone of our influence,*** our available
resources are quite sufficient for us to ensure our own security, to
build absolutely reliable guarantees for our security despite any
prospective (weapons) developments they may be talking about," Putin
said Saturday, according to Russian news reports.

Putin said in his state of the nation address that the government would
work to strengthen the nation's nuclear deterrent as well as
conventional military forces without repeating the mistakes of the Cold
War era, when a costly arms race against the U.S. drained Soviet
resources.

He said in Wednesday's address that the new Bulava and Topol-M
intercontinental ballistic missiles and warheads, which can foil
defenses by changing direction in flight, would allow Russia to
preserve a strategic balance without denting the nation's economic
development goals, reports AP.

O.Ch.

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