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Russia 'will' deliver S-300 to Iran in 2 months
Russia 'will' deliver S-300 to Iran in 2 months
Russia has ensured that it will honor a deal providing Iran with the S-300 sophisticated anti-aircraft system, Tehran's envoy to Moscow says.
Mohammad-Reza Sajjadi on Friday rejected reports that Russia had pulled out of the deal due to a delay in the delivery of the system to Iran.
The Disintegration of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by Roman Kupchinsky
The Ukrainian military has apparently become a victim of the country’s fierce political infighting and might well be on its way to disintegration. For five months Ukraine has been without a Defense Minister, an unprecedented situation in the country’s history.
WORLD IN BRIEF: Russia to cut military strength
Russia plans to trim its armed forces by more than 10 percent by 2012 with radical cuts among the officer ranks, the defense minister said Wednesday. The Kremlin plans to streamline and modernize the military, which has suffered from inefficiency and low morale despite steady increases in defense budgets in recent years.
And None Dare Call It Treason—McCain Advisor's Georgia Connection by Patrick Buchanan
Who is Randy Scheunemann?
He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States.
But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role.
Defending Ukraine: Where are Kiev’s nukes when we need them?
The crisis over Georgia has abated, but its ramifications will only increase. What of Ukraine? The question worries people across Europe and especially those in Ukraine.
When the Soviet Union broke up, thousands of nuclear weapons remained in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. One of America’s principal foreign policy goals became disarming these inadvertent nuclear weapons states.
No Dog in This Fight by Doug Bandow
Washington has become an ugly place. Eight years of bitter Republican attacks on Bill and Hillary Clinton have been followed by eight years of bitter Democratic attacks on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. But this venom cannot compare to the tidal wave of political hatred that has recently overwhelmed Ukraine’s capital of Kiev.
Ukrainian Missile Defenseless by Doug Bandow
The crisis over Georgia has abated, but its ramifications will only increase. People across Europe are worrying, What of Ukraine? At this moment the denuclearization of Ukraine looks like a shortsighted nod to foreign-policy correctness, putting mostly theoretical nonproliferation concerns ahead of very real international security interests.
Please Mr. President, Don't Make Promises to Fools By John Taylor
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it."
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Aug. 14, 2008
Bear-Baiting Blowback by Patrick J. Buchanan
Mikheil Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia’s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.
Nasser’s blunder cost him the Sinai in the Six-Day War. Saakashvili’s blunder probably means permanent loss of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Washington's Laughable Lack of Self-Awareness by Doug Bandow
The remarks by Zalmay Khalilzad, America's UN ambassador, denouncing Russian aggression against that paragon of democratic virtue, the Republic of Georgia, are almost too funny to quote. U.S. government hypocrisy obviously is not new, but Washington's inconsistency on this occasion is more spectacular than usual.
