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Russian president threatens return to Cold War

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  • #2
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    *Dusts off "Two Tribes" record and list of Gorbachev-birthmark jokes*


  • #3
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    The USA will do what they like. Red WMDs, the Kremlin housing Al-Queda, Air strikes on Moscow by Christmas. ... The world we live in....


  • #4
    jimthemental
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    A return would imply that they have moved on from the post WWII political and military posturing in the first place. There was a few years of a break with Yeltsin and that was it.


  • #5
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    how can you have a cold war with global warming :confused:


  • #6
    jimthemental
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    Uriel. wrote: »
    The USA will do what they like. Red WMDs, the Kremlin housing Al-Queda, Air strikes on Moscow by Christmas. ... The world we live in....

    No they wont, because China, Russia, North Korea and now Pakistan also are there to bomb them back to a state where they will have to start evolution again from scratch.


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  • #7
    EL_Loco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    attacking Russia, now there's a silly thing to do. I thought we were all pals. :(

    Sure are we not still in the scenario of mutually assured destruction anyway if someone does go intercontinental ballistic missile stylee?


  • #8
    orourkeda
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    *Dusts off "Two Tribes" record and list of Gorbachev-birthmark jokes*

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA


  • #9
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Saila wrote: »
    how can you have a cold war with global warming :confused:

    It's climate change


  • #10
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Watched a documentary the other day called 'Countdown to Zero'. This kinda reminded me of it, really good!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mn-1LuLhrw


  • #11
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    *Dusts off "Two Tribes" record and list of Gorbachev-birthmark jokes*

    Its still the best song ever


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  • #12
    Show Time
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    Duck and cover time.


  • #13
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,900 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    I thought that after they had changed the form of the missile defence shield, that the Russians had decided they were OK with the new version?

    They change their mind again?

    NTM


  • #14
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Another cold war. This is gonna be deadly


  • #15
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    orourkeda wrote: »
    It's climate change

    same same..


  • #16
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Coincidence? I don't think so!! :eek:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056272708


  • #17
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Pretty sure this is the plotline to Modern Warfare 3 so I'm gonna put this down to some INTENSE viral marketing from Activision


  • #18
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Show Time wrote: »
    Duck and cover time.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmx1vMouUt8


  • #19
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    EL_Loco wrote: »
    attacking Russia, now there's a silly thing to do. I thought we were all pals. :(

    Sure are we not still in the scenario of mutually assured destruction anyway if someone does go intercontinental ballistic missile stylee?

    As I understand it, this would end MAD. If the US build a defense shield they can fire all the missiles they like at Russia without fear of retaliation.


  • #20
    RHJ
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #21
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Recession, Cold War, Duran Duran reforming, these revisionist history pricks who claim the 80s were so great are going too far. Next they'll be reanimating the corpse of Reagan and trying reinstate the Thatcherite government. We're all ****ed.


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  • #22
    EL_Loco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    hardCopy wrote: »
    As I understand it, this would end MAD. If the US build a defense shield they can fire all the missiles they like at Russia without fear of retaliation.

    ah right. Looking at a map I can see why the Russians might be suspicious of a "defense" battery in Poland for example. Wouldn't do very much for a missile from Iran, or at least, there are other places closer to Iran within europe for the first line of defense.

    Iran just used as example because it was mentioned earlier.


  • #23
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    RHJ wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    *crosses fingers* Come onnn, teleportation!!


  • #24
    user1842
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭user1842


    Who cares what the Russians say. They are a joke of a nation. If anyone knew in the cold war days how backward they were, the US would have mopped the floor with them.

    The only thing they were good at was covering up their antiquated technology.

    I would be surprised if their ICBM's even still work, the valve electronics in them are probably broken.


  • #25
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Sanjuro wrote: »
    Recession, Cold War, Duran Duran reforming, these revisionist history pricks who claim the 80s were so great are going too far. Next they'll be reanimating the corpse of Reagan and trying reinstate the Thatcherite government. We're all ****ed.

    Reagan was awesome.

    Why can't the Russians build their own shield.


  • #26
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    enfant terrible wrote: »
    Reagan was awesome.

    Why can't the Russians build their own shield.

    He absolutely was not. The financial shitstorm the world is experiencing right now can be traced back to his administration and their ludicrous ideas of deregulation. The guy was an idiot surrounded by the worst kind of politicians.

    Also, this notion that he ended the cold war is a fallacy. The Communist system was collapsing anyway. Reagan just happened to be in power when it finally did collapse. Yet Republicans still say it was a victory for them. Idiots.


  • #27
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Warren Zevon released this in 1980.

    Nuclear arms in the Middle East
    Israel is attacking the Iraqis
    The Syrians are mad at the Lebanese
    And Baghdad does whatever she please
    Looks like another threat to world peace
    For the envoy

    Things got hot in El Salvador
    CIA got caught and couldn't do no more
    He's got diplomatic immunity
    He's got a lethal weapon that nobody sees
    Looks like another threat to world peace
    For the envoy
    Send the envoy
    Send the envoy

    Whenever there's a crisis
    The President sends his envoy in
    Guns in Damascus
    Woa, Jerusalem

    Nuclear arms in the Middle East
    Israel is attacking the Iraqis
    The Syrians are mad at the Lebanese
    And Baghdad do whatever she please
    Looks like another threat to world peace
    For the envoy
    Send the envoy . . .
    Send for me


  • #28
    dizzywizlw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 584 ✭✭✭dizzywizlw


    This hasn't been news since 2007, I remember Putin saying the exact same thing.

    Russia is a decrepit disease ridden alcoholic of a nation, the can bully Georgia and Estonia but they'd get a hiding off any of the 'Great Powers'.


  • #29
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Sanjuro wrote: »
    He absolutely was not. The financial shitstorm the world is experiencing right now can be traced back to his administration and their ludicrous ideas of deregulation. The guy was an idiot surrounded by the worst kind of politicians.

    Also, this notion that he ended the cold war is a fallacy. The Communist system was collapsing anyway. Reagan just happened to be in power when it finally did collapse. Yet Republicans still say it was a victory for them. Idiots.

    Wild guess here you don't like Republicans.


  • #30
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    enfant terrible wrote: »
    Wild guess here you don't like Republicans.

    I don't like most political parties. The American ones are especially rubbish.


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  • #31
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_rCnueID8


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