Diabolical commie plot:
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev today called on U.S. presidential candidates to develop alternatives to the use of military power, decrying what he called “increasingly visible signs of the militarization of politics and thinking in the modern world … even though the military route again and again leads to a dead-end.”
Writing in the the Russian government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Gorbachev said the Bush administration has shown a tendency to “seek to address these problems primarily through threats and pressure. Will the candidates develop an alternative approach to these most crucial problems? This is now the main question.”
Russia? Or the old Soviet Union:
MOSCOW – Russia threatened Tuesday to react militarily if Washington erects defence installations on its Cold War turf, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a deal with the Czech Republic.
“If a US strategic anti-missile shield is deployed near our borders, we will be forced to react not in a diplomatic fashion but with military resources,” a foreign office statement said.
“There is no doubt that the grouping of elements of the strategic US arsenal faced towards Russian territory” could lead Moscow to “take adequate measures to face the threats to its national security,” it added.
How’s it feel to be on the other side of that saber-rattling?
