Putin to Bush: My nuke is better than yours, nani-nani-boo-boo

New Russian Nuclear Missiles Unstoppable — Defense Minister
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/01/ministermissiles.shtml

There is no missile defense system in the world capable of repulsing the new nuclear missiles that are being developed in Russia, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.

“We know exactly what we gain by developing such missiles. There is no defense from these missiles,” Russian Information Agency Novosti quoted the minister as saying.

Speaking to journalists, he added that Russia does not intend to attack any state with the new weapons.

Ivanov was quoted saying

"Russia was against U.S. military bases on Georgian territory. “We see no sense in those bases,” the minister said."

Are we heading towards another Cold War?

They don't have a quarter of an economy.

they got their new toy. LOL

/oxymoron intended

That's his idea of international diplomacy, you know.... :eyes:

Putin loses his smile after lecture from Bush on democracy
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=614535

President George Bush subjected Russia's Vladimir Putin to a public
lecture on the fundamentals of democracy yesterday, injecting a
chill into a relationship that has - until now - been characterised
by bonhomie.

Meeting in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, Mr Bush emerged from a
three-hour meeting with the Russian President joking and smiling and
full of warm words. But his frequent references to "Vladimir" and
the "fella" were peppered with targeted criticism of the state of
democracy in Russia with which the more hawkish members of his
administration are said to have lost patience.

An unsmiling, visibly irritated Mr Putin squirmed as he listened to
Mr Bush tell a press conference he had been told that Washington
had "concerns about Russia's commitment in fulfilling" the "universal principles" of democracy. "Democracies always reflect
a country's customs and culture, and I know that," Mr Bush
said. "Yet democracies have certain things in common; they have a
rule of law, and protection of minorities, a free press, and a
viable political opposition."

It was in Slovakia, not Russia. But the point still is taken that President Napoleon has absolutely no right to publicly take Putin to the woodshed about "democracy", since President Napoleon himself has extreme trouble understanding the concept.

In Putin's eyes and the way things are going over there, methinks, Putin would like Russia to include all of the former Soviet States as his own.