Syrian missile shield

A recent development in these nuclear disarmament talks showed that Obama was ready to scrap plans to build the missile shield in Eastern Europe if Russia aided them in stopping Iran's nuclear program.



Now I'm no fan of the current Russian President Dimitry Medvedev and certainly not a fan of President Barack Obama but I like to think that Prime Minister Vladamir Putin is really pulling the strings on Medvedev like most people think, which is why after Obama's statement Russia should put forward plans to build their own missile system in Syria.

This scenario was discussed before but steps have yet to be taken, but it is absolutely necessary and I have a feeling that less than 57% of Syrians would oppose it (the same amount of Poles who opposed a missiles being placed in their country).

Why I say it's necessary:

If the US think it's necessary to place 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a long range radar system in the Czech Republic to counter the Iranians from developing nuclear power plants then I think Syria is more obliged to cover every inch of it's air space because of the small state of Israel in which it has no diplomatic ties with and the one that carried out an air strike on it's territory two years ago, one that is not just developing nuclear weapons, but sitting on a stockpile of at least 60 nuclear weapons, and have in their inventory missiles that can hit any place in Syria!



Yes I think Russia would be well doing it's part as a world power by giving Syria and Iran a credible air defence, preferable the S-300 portable SAM sites which can shoot down enemy fighter-jets and ballistic missiles in the very possible likelihood of an Israeli strike.



And (predictably) Israel will play it's bullshit card saying it's feeling threatened by the presence of these defensive missiles in Syria and will threaten to attack them, Russia should counteract this threat by diverting several of their nuclear bombers to patrol Syrian skies and put Tel Aviv under the nuclear hammer (for a change) and let them see how it feels to be on the receiving end of such diabolical threats!

what a real breakthrough in nuclear disarmament looks like!

Obama and Medvedev's agreements on nuclear arms reduction today has being described as a breakthrough, although that being said I doubt they'll break much ground until that US missile shield that's being established in Poland and the Czech Republic is fully removed since it is (rightly so) considered a threat to Russian security, the shield is supposed to stop missiles fired form neither Iran or North Korea, although I somehow doubt that will ever happen!



That being said the US and Russia still have ample amount of nuclear weapons to wipe each other out, the US arsenal numbers some 8,000 warheads, 2,500 of these are on 15 minute alert to be launched while Russia has 14,000 warheads left over from the Soviet Union.

Towards the end of the Cold War the Soviet Union had 39,000 nuclear weapons while the Americans were "behind" with 21,000 warheads, when Reagan and Gorbachev finally got talking there was a brief moment in which arms reduction became a reality, the Soviets dismantled several of their SS-20 missiles and observers from both sides observed the other dismantling missiles.



This was very short lived, when the Soviet Union collapsed instantly three former Soviet states still had nuclear weapons, Belarus had 61, Kazakhstan had 1,400 and the Ukraine had 5,000, they all voluntarily gave them back to Russia where most of them were dismantled.

The US meanwhile in the late 1990's encouraged Pakistan to build up its nuclear weapons stocks to over 60 nuclear weapons to counter India's nuclear weapons (an ally of Russia), Israel (an ally of the United States) have several nuclear warheads and missiles that threaten every city in the Arab world.


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See what I'm getting at, Pakistan and India need to have serious limitations until neither of them have nuclear weapons, this will be difficult since Pakistan built so many nukes because of its size compared to India.

You know my stance on Israel their nuclear weapon should also be destroyed before they get into a war that might end up with them setting the whole Middle East on fire!

So in my mind all of this needs to happen before the US and Russia can talk serious about an end to nuclear weapons, that being said the reason it never got fully underway before the Soviet Union collapsed was because Reagan didn't want to get rid of Strategic Defense Initiative (the Star Wars missile defence), and Obama has already said he is reluctant on removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic.

I mean talk about Déjà vu!