{"id":3084,"date":"2008-08-15T12:44:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2008-08-15T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T17:44:30","slug":"back-to-the-eighties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"Back To The Eighties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading this <\/a>is like a trip down memory lane:<\/p>\n

A top Russian general said Friday that Poland’s agreement to accept a U.S. missile defense battery exposes ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons<\/span>, the Interfax news agency<\/span> reported.<\/p>\n

The statement by Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn is the strongest threat that Russia<\/span> has issued against the plans to put missile defense<\/span> elements in former Soviet satellite nations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, just like high school; the Russians perceive a “threat”, they respond with bluster and threats.<\/p>\n

Of course, when I was in high school, the president was someone who caved in to those threats; who acquiesced to Communist expansionism around the globe; someone for whom audacity and hope were more important than security.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, calling the Soviet bluff caused the house of cards to collapse.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Soviets offered nothing to the west but a threat.\u00a0 The Russians – while presiding over a crumbled, failing nation – have oil and natural gas as well as tanks and missiles.\u00a0 They’re also not only institutionally paranoid about invasion (having been the stomping ground for invaders from Greeks and Huns through the Mongols and Germans), but they’re now surrounded by independent nations – Poland, Mongolia, Georgia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria – that hate the Russians with a ferocity that can only come from centuries of history.<\/p>\n

So are our kids going to have to live through another Cold War?\u00a0 Is the the Russia\/Third World axis of the Sixties and Seventies going to recap itself with the Islamofascists – possible in reverse, with Islamists using Russia as a conventional proxy?<\/p>\n

Is our next president going to be a Carter or a Reagan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading this is like a trip down memory lane: A top Russian general said Friday that Poland’s agreement to accept a U.S. missile defense battery exposes ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported. The statement by Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn is the strongest threat that Russia has issued against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}