Russia Pushes Through The Back Door

Russia has been feeling increasingly surrounded by the United States and it's tentacles of influence.

With NATO creeping ever-closer to their western border, and a strong and growing American military presence to the east in Afghanistan, Moscow felt it was time to send some Russian steel in the other direction.

They've sent Peter the Great. The Tsar died in 1725, but his name now adorns the flagship of the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet; a nuclear-powered battle cruiser loaded with the finest military hardware Moscow has to offer.

Peter the Great is now glaring northward from a dock in Venezuela — not a Latin American country with which Washington has entirely congenial relations at present.

Reporter David Grout, from CBS News' Moscow bureau, has the story:

[toolmangler-2009]

our back yard?
I guess calling your neighboring nations "our back yard" will help to get along with them
(yes, this is a Venezuelan speaking)
I despise Hugo Chavez, but this kind of language doesnt help at all
Posted by jrcolmena at 08:23 PM : Dec 09, 2008




Well said and true, My countrymen need to learn that ''we'' do not own the world. Nor should we.

[jsd330]

The United States Military is a huge failure. Ineffective at every task and never getting anything right.
posted by HETUP
You must not have never served in the military, if you did you wouldn''t make assinine statements like that. Keep the politicians noses out of military operations and there never would be a problem. We have the best servicemen and women in the world
Had bush sr. let Gen. Shwartzkoph do what he wanted to do during desert storm keep going right thru bagdad and take saddam out we wouldn''t be in iraq today.

[edintex]

Russia has a LONG way to go to be a real conventional threat to the US. We should invite their ship "Peter the Great" to have a port of call in SanFrancisco so the "excited" socialist citizens there can tour the ship and show them we mean them no harm. Its OK as long as they stay on the west coast.

[ocasanas]

I wonder if they give guided-tours: "What''s that button for?, Click!"

[cdfoxtrot6]

The Russians are the ones over here trying to flex their muscules. Plus, I think we have every right to build a defense against rogue nations that are acquiring nuclear weapons. If the Russians backed us with sanctions against nations that are trying to build a bomb we wouldn''''t have to put those defensive missles up in the first place and they wouldnt need to come here to flex their muscles.

Posted by Jamster31

Exactly. If those pesky Rooskies don''t do what we say, no matter whether it''s the right thing or makes any sense, they have no right to respond when we ratchet up the tension by placing missiles in their neighbors yards (to continue the metaphor in the article).

[jrcolmena]

our back yard?
I guess calling your neighboring nations "our back yard" will help to get along with them
(yes, this is a Venezuelan speaking)
I despise Hugo Chavez, but this kind of language doesnt help at all

[jamster31]

You don''''t need military might to cause damage. 9/11 was carried out with box cutters.




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Posted by nikosk11 at 05:53 PM : Dec 09, 2008
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Then we should attack it with boxcutters.

[nikosk11]

They have no real military might. Park your whole fleet down there then we have soomething for target practice.

Posted by vatcher at 02:28 PM : Dec 09, 2008

You don''t need military might to cause damage. 9/11 was carried out with box cutters.

[nikosk11]

I''''m still waiting for one of the ''''foreign relations experts'''' posting here to let us know where the government complained.

It seems that the only ones complaining are those that complain about the non-existent complaint.

Posted by gdw666 at 03:10 PM : Dec 09, 2008

Oh, you want to hear from Sarah Palin. She is the foreign relations expert since Russia is at her back yard. I see!!!!

[jamster31]

Can we get all the people who think Russians are weak and keep flapping their mouth about how quickly we can beat them, to stand on the front line when it comes time to show who has the bigger toys? These kind of people are usually the ones we find hiding behind all the other people they got killed. Little Chahuaha''''s.


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Posted by lochlan at 01:17 PM : Dec 09, 2008

The Russians are the ones over here trying to flex their muscules. Plus, I think we have every right to build a defense against rogue nations that are acquiring nuclear weapons. If the Russians backed us with sanctions against nations that are trying to build a bomb we wouldn''t have to put those defensive missles up in the first place and they wouldnt need to come here to flex their muscles.