Is America starting another "Cold War" with Russia?
600819
no, i think russia is trying to regain some glory and it oil company threathen europe, thus we are involved.
364429
Or they use them against us, which they already SAID they would. But hey just because a country that harbors terrorists, and pretty much wants to see all Americans DIE a horrible painful death, and IS going to get nuclear weapons and DID say they WILL use them again us, our citizens, and our allies, does not mean we should stop them. I mean come on, let's let them kill a few million peoiple first, THEN maybe we will let NATO try some political sanctions for a few years.
848850
well its kind of a two sided war. You see, it must be traced back to the source. When the Russians invaded Afghanistan, Usama Bin Ladin as well as Ahmed Massoud (pardon me for spelling mistakes) defended their territory in a combined effort. After that Usama returned without a motivation and needed to pursue further ventures, while Massoud formed america's greatest ally-The Northern Alliance. Then it was that Usama learned of a man(cant remember the name), who was leading forces against the united states. He claimed that america lacked culture and religion and needed to convert to islam. Throughout the clinton administration, there were numerous threats of attacks and who can forget the first WTC bombing in 1993? Then it was in 2001 that WTC was bombed again which eventually led to the events that have evolved into the war today. Even i am no supporter of violence, but you must remember that we cannot rule out who is responsible for the conditions today. Go do some research.
681098
The US has done studies on the possibility of stealing Russian satellites (usually they were done back in the days when the term Soviet would be used) but the fact that the Soviets typically put self-destructs on their satellites (particularly the military ones the US would have wanted to steal) would make it too dangerous to do.  Russia still puts self-destruct systems on their military satellites.\n\nGetting the technology for satellites would be easier done through the use of espionage than by sending up a mission to steal the satellite.\n\nNot to mention that there are treaties which say it's not allowed, though since when does anyone actually obey those things?
453924
Educate yourself on this issue. You will find that you are wrong. It is up to the United Nations Security Council, not America.\n\nI am American and I don't want war or nukes. I also don't want to be blamed for the actions of the security system set up by the global powers.
971461
It wasn't. The USSR lied about having missles in Cuba aimed at the  United States. We found out about it from spy photos and told the Russians to remove them or we'd nuke them until they glowed.\n\nThey blinked first and removed the missles.
146336
To some degree the answer is "Yes", there is an ongoing threat of another attack somewhere in our country.\n\nThat being said, this is a very valid question.  To any thinking person, the Bush administration has lost most of it's credibility.  The old adage applies, "Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me".\n\nThere may have been a plot but I believe that what we've heard about it is probably exaggerated.  I think the real news story here is the timing between the disclosure of the "plot" and the controversy over the Domestic Spying Program.\n\nAlso, Jonathon Alter's column in this week's "Newsweek" discusses this.  Good reading.
671108
I never relized that before, I mean helping castro getting elected nearly caused WWIII in 1963 with soviet missile crisis, Giving Saddam bio weapons in the '80's causing the current war, oh and helping the Taliban fight the Soviets in the '80's as well, who knows maby the russians would have wiped them out if we didn't supply them guns and HEAT-SEEKING MISSILES i.e. the stinger rocket launcher. I think our next "friend" will be a middle eastern or latin american rebel group that comes back to bite us in the ass.
799212
Sticking your head in the sand an ignoring lessons from history about the threats our country can and have faced is the policy of an idiot. Even the USA could become the enemy of the UK in the future when natural resources become worth fighting for. The 21st century has along way to go and it is more than likely that a global war will occur again. No doubt caused by a lack of water and natural resources. I woulld much rather our country did not have to give in to the USA, China or Russia when the fighting does actually begin. And only an idiot would be happy to allow a country like North Korea to have access to Nuclear weapons. They have a stated policy of wanting to overthrow the South Korean regime using any means possible.
41704
most probably america will easily solve this by droping a nuke on the iranians...maybe they'll drop it on moscow too if its convientent since they like bombing up other countries like japan,vietnam,afghanistan,iraq....etc..
586302
Does the USA really want Russia as a friend or does the USA want Russia as a foe,, irresponsible comments by Cheney will only inflame relationships and cause further tensions in relation to the Iran issue,, Cheney should butt out of other countries affairs especially Russia they are not going to take his provocation.
686740
It looks like. In my opinion America is asking for more trouble, as if it hadn't enough. America has abused its freedom and its resources to the extend that the developing nations have started hating its dominating attitude. It's already on "war" with Iran and things are hotting up to a final nuclear holocaust.
690897
This is ridiculous.  There have been times when the US has got itself involved in armed conflicts that Britain started (not least two world wars) and also times when Britain has got involved in conflicts at the behest of America.  The two countries are very close allies and the current anti-Americanism in Britain is very worrying.\n\nIf we weren't so closely allied to our great transatlantic ally, I think we would quickly end up being just one state in the United States of Europe, which would be a tragedy.
544667
Yes, Russia is a Christian nation in the fight against terrorism. They are in the area fighting muslim terrorism on their borders. The more we push them away the more their curtian will raise. Russia is a great ally and we should do more to bridge any gap there is. Our former soviet state allies should realize that Russia is on their borders not the United States. The above answers show how uninformed the American general public is.
57738
Currently, the Russian military has been considerably diminished from where it stood 15 years ago at the height of the cold war. Most of the strategic weapons (submarines, bombers, etc) have been mothballed due to cost cuts. By comparison, the US military is perhaps the world's most well equipped. \n\nYou mention nuclear weapons. Both nations have limited strategic nuclear weapons due to the various treaties designed to limit the proliferation of such weapons. The old Russian weapons systems are in many cases not in the best shape to be used, since many of their strategic weapons depended on complex and hard to maintain liquid fueled missiles. US missiles are all solid fueled, and much more stable and reliable.\n\nThat being said, if anyone ever attempted to invade Russia, history would not be on their side. The Russians may have old technology and equipment, but they have a toughness bred of long oppression and much suffering. They have been to the edge of hell as a nation many times, and lived to talk about it. We in the US get all bothered when gas goes up a nickel, or when our cellphones malfunction.
602971
The concern with Russia is their aging nuclear security system, aging early warning systems and possibility of diversion of material to rogue states or terrorist groups.  They could accidentally launch a nuclear missile at the US or NATO allies...
451297
Of course. The US has enemies like any other country.