Russia threatens to send air defense system to protect Iranian nukes

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Russia threatens to send air defense system to protect Iranian nukes


Russia is about to sell Iran a brigade of the S-300 air defense missiles to protect its nuke facilities against attack. This isn't a new topic. Russia agreed before to not sell them to Iran, but now it seems Putin is playing poker with the young American president.

The message: You back off on missile shields in Eastern Europe, and I'll back off on protecting a fanatic's nuclear weapons development program.
The problem is that Obama is out of his league. His "let's talk this through" approach is naive. It projects weakness. We are dealing with two cultures - Russian and Arabian - that work from positions of strength, real and perceived. They respond only to that - not to reason.

Add to the mix the SOS Clinton statement of NK not being "helpful" in the latters comments, and it makes me think the grammar school teacher is talking to a couple of misbehaving kids.

These misbehaving kids, folks, have billions of dollars, followers willing to blow themselves up, and nuclear weapons. This is not grammar school.

Hamas, Syria, Iran, and NK can't be made to stand in the corner until they learned their lessons.

So how dangerous as the S-300s? It's American counterpart is the Patriot missile system.

How do we know this is just politcal theater for the Russians? They've already been supplying them to the Iranians. This latest move is just targeted to the nuclear facilities.

Debka's take from the first link above:

DEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources recall that prime minister Vladimir Putin in his previous role as Russian president personally assured the US and Israeli governments more than once that he would never release the lethal S-300 missiles to Iran. Their acquisition would make an air attack on Iran's nuclear facilities extremely difficult and dangerous.

This is not a "helpful" development. Obama better quit talking and start acting.

http://www.examiner.com/x-3132-Phila...t-Iraian-nukes