Putin was concernin' hisself on NATO. Specifically on the ABM interceptors being placed in the former Warsaw Pact. Who would have thunk that Putin, King W's good bud, would have a problem with them their missiles? After all Putin ain't no JFK, and Poland and the Czech Republic ain't no Cuber. So now Putin is threatening said countries with invasion? That is un-'Merican. And why are my danged sphincter muscles tightening.
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I guess that when the Neocons were invalidating the ABM treaty, because they said that the treaty was with the Soviet Union--which no longer exists, that they should have known that the Russians would use the same logic to invalidate all of the other treaties that the Soviets had signed. Oops. Major fuckup!
Now Putin is ready to start Cold War II--only this time it won't be so fun for us all in 'Merica. This time the Russians are not mired in a Middle Eastern war they have no chance of winning--we are. This time the Russian government is not (as) crippled by corruption and incompetence in the military-industrial economic sphere--we are. While we have to fight wars to secure diminishing national resources, the Russians have plenty of their own. We have also done a bang-up job of diverting the Islamic-fundamentalist extremist's hate-on away from the Russians.
At some point in the future, historians will look back on this era and wonder what the fuck the Bush administration was doing concerning itself with Iraq, when the power that was the greatest mortal danger to our way of life, Russia, was left to throw its weight around unchecked. Saddam had the idea that a nuclear weapon might be nice to have someday. Putin has nuclear weapons. Putin has ICBMs, SLBMs and bombers capable of paving the entirety of the US and Western Europe with bubbling radioactive glass. Way to drop the ball, morons.