Russia Won’t Renew Pact on Weapons With U.S.

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22. There is no defense against ballistic missiles, that's what they have been throwing money at for 30

years with no success, huge sums of money mind you, after the physicists told them it would not work. (The math thing again.) So you can't go long on defense because there is no defense to go long on. You have to have something that might do the job first, and all they have is something that will cost a lot money. That is what they are so hot to get lasers for, they could be fast enough, in theory. ABMs are a waste of time, countermeasures are easy and cheap, and ABMs are difficult and expensive. This is not a new problem, it's why guided ballistic missiles are so popular, they can't be stopped, though you might get lucky now and then.

Meanwhile, if we put a bunch of missiles in Poland, guess what, they can shoot them at Russia, anytime they want, and put any warhead we want on them too, if it fits, so all you have is a lot of missile sites close to Russia that we can do whatever we like with, that we CLAIM are only for "defense". (And don't tell me we would not lie about that either.)

And the other guys comment about destabilization is right too, Russia is not going to just sit there while we ring them with missiles in the attempt to somehow make global thermonuclear war "thinkable", and no amount of dissembling and bullshit is going to change that.