Don't worry. Schwarzenegger was elected to lead, not to read :)Quote:
Originally Posted by fousto
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Don't worry. Schwarzenegger was elected to lead, not to read :)Quote:
Originally Posted by fousto
There was a demonstration here Gdansk today. Seems some poles don't want the missiles here.
Why would they? What are you doing there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Here for a wedding. You could argue that it gives them some protection from Russia and means support will come from the US. Or you could say it makes them more of a target.
actually I oppose the missiles as well. you guys should defend yourselves if you think you need it. I don't need to be paying higher taxes for this sh!t. Plus they would just build nuclear cruise missiles which wouldn't be shot down. We can pick off a ICBM as it approaches our country. This is stupid and only causes more world tension.
Do you think they didn't want a Russian passport? I find it unlikely that anyone can give passports of another nation to someone who doesn't want it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drew
I think the Polish leadership has played this quite well. After all, the current government was elected in part because the previous administration was perceived to have been thoughtlessly pro-American and aligned the nation too closely with American foreign and defence policies. I'm sure the government under Donald Tusk, which had previously stated some degree of opposition to hosting the missiles, will have extracted some other concessions from the US during the negotiations — the promise of a good deal on some more F-16 fighters, perhaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
No idea. Perhaps I should have asked some people at the wedding. Or not :)
Russia has just recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, thus completing what the West started in Kosovo: destroying the world order that had existed since WWII. Hold tight guys, we are in for a big turmoil.
In way it's natural, Europe and Asia is made out of countless small nations, often the smaller ones have had very little say in which bigger country they in any given time belong to. I doubt you'll find many, if not any countries in Eurasia that don't have any ethnic tensions going back decades, or even hundreds of years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
The borders that were drawn after WW2 are just as artificial as the ones drawn after the first world war, or the dozens of skirmishes before that.
All it takes is a bit ethnic prejudice and a charismatic nutcase and things go to the toilet in five years. :)