-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Chris Doss Enviada em: sabado, 9 de fevereiro de 2002 06:57 Para: 'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com' Assunto: RE: Russian take on Bush's State of the Union blather
I do see a possible arms race in the future, assuming the Russian economy continues to boom and the bureaucracy -- which is 60 percent larger today than it was in the USSR -- gets trimmed down, so the money goes where ir's supposed to and not into bureaucrats pockets (hey, paying bureaucrats enough to live on might go a long way in this direction). The Russian government doesn't know whether to laugh out loud or cry, maybe both, about Bush's suggestion that the US not scrap its nukes, just put them in storage. Most Russians think this means that, since Russia is the only country that many nukes could possibly be used against, the US still thinks Russia is the enemy.
Maybe it's time to carry out Purin's threat to recommission those Topol-M ICBMs and slap multiple nukes on 'em!
Chris Doss The Russia Journal ------------------
-But even if Russia grows at 4-5% an year it will take almost a decade to -return to pre 1991 GNP, an even more to return to pre 1991 USSR GDP. -How do you think Russia still can sustain a weapons race against the -USA???
Alexandre Fenelon