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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 11:40am Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5534 of 5537)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

If you search almarst and earlier, almarstel_20001 , you'll see that these issues concern him, too.

These issues are important to consider if we are to make peace.

And issues of motivation and motivation for whom need to be considered.

We ought not to forget the NAZI ties that the CIA has, and that Kissinger was much involved with.

( Much of Kissinger's writing reads very much like the writing of the fictinal figure the war criminal general Armel von Roon in Herman Wouk's WAR AND REMEMBERANCE . The tradition of geopolitics is a german academic tradition that Hitler and the Nazis appreciated very much, and taught to justify much of what they did.)

When one looks at the history of the nuclear terror, we ought to carefully consider what the US has done, and how tiny, and uncontrolled, the group of people dominating US nuclear policy and "geopolitics" has been.

rshowalter - 11:43am Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5535 of 5537)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

If one searches this thread, under "NAZI" , one may find that I'm biased, or not. A reader can choose. But I'm not saying I'm certain of things that I'm only concerned about -- and there are connections that are clear -- and conspicuously uncontested, in my view.

Indeed, in terms of some actions on this thread, perhaps collaborated.

It seems to me that every nation state that deals with the United States ought to take the trouble to find out about these issues -- so that real peace -- a real, workable, stable secular redemption for all concerned, can be possible.

rshowalter - 11:44am Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5536 of 5537)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

One can also find interesting things, and not only on this thread, searching "Carlyle" .

rshowalter - 11:54am Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5537 of 5537)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

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The larger context that mostly concerns almarst , as I read him, involves big issues like the militarization of space -- something Russia stands opposed to, and that I oppose personally, too. . . . . Fix these big, passionately felt misunderstandings, and valid concerns, and cooperation in reducing nuclear threats from smaller nations and groups would be a foregone conclusion between Russia and the US, in my opinion.

Friedman's take on Kissinger's recent book:

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