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Maybe they'll offer jobs to the scientists who sold secrets to Pakistan after the cold war ended because they had no income. The U.S. missed the boat by not taking care of these scientists. Rumsfeld strikes again.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071207/ts_nm/russia_usa_nuclear_dc&printer=1;_ylt=Apn_D8gCk_D.c YLQnAcSAE9g.3QA (broken link)
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, tipped by some analysts as a possible successor to President Vladimir Putin, said on Friday Russia must achieve nuclear arms parity with the United States.
"Military potential, to say nothing of nuclear potential, must be at the proper level if we want ... to just stay independent," Itar-Tass news agency quoted Ivanov as saying.
"The weak are not loved and not heard, they are insulted, and when we have parity they will talk to us in a different way."
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Putin himself has also made strongly worded statements about Russia's need to reassert its role as a superpower and boost its defenses.
...Stressing the need for nuclear parity with the United States, Ivanov told commission members about a talk he had with former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
"That same Donald Rumsfeld, who had spent his childhood in Chicago which is famous for its mobsters, told me, 'They listen better to your arguments if you don't just smile, but also hide a gun in your bosom'," Ivanov said.
It is okay for Russia to have nuclear parity, as well as Pakistan, as long as the nuclear weapons are created, maintained, and manufactured by private corporations with no government subsidy or oversight, in order to maximize free market efficiency.
Having an adequate nuclear arsenal is a pretty good way of keeping the US from invading your country for fun and profit. Too bad Russia is getting back in the militarism bandwagon. Funny because it destroyed them, the Soviet Union, once and will certainly do so again. Probably not before our militarism destroys us.
I love the idea of private nuclear weapons. As suggested by Libertariun “…as long as the nuclear weapons are created, maintained, and manufactured by private corporations with no government subsidy or oversight, in order to maximize free market efficiency.”
Just imagine the possibilities of Columbian drug runners with nuclear weapons. Imagine the Soprano’s with nukes. What a wonderful, if short-lived, world without any pesky market distortions.
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