Did Somebody say "Lusitania"?

Filed under: Russia

The International Herald Tribune reports that even as Russia was demanding that NATO not embrace former Soviet slave states Ukraine and Georgia, proclaiming that Russia's "sphere of influence" should be respected, it was inking a deal to sell attack submarines to the maniacal anti-America dictator of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. The IHT states: "The ships, known in NATO terms as Kilo-class, are Russia's most advanced non-nuclear submarine. China, India and Iran, among others, have all purchased the subs in recent years."

So Russia is sending dangerous weapons to Venezuela, Iran and China. Chavez openly states: "that his country needs submarines to protect itself against its enemies -- foremost among them the United States." Yet at the same time Russia complains that the U.S. is threatening Russian security by insisting that NATO expand? This is the same kind of just-plain-crazy, childish, have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too hypocrisy that brought down the USSR. Just like the USSR was, Russia appears to be governed by madmen who cannot accurately perceive reality and who are more dangerous to the nation's survival than any foreign foe.

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