Just like Rocky 4
Oh, hello there. If you read the above title and thought ” hey, that’s how an asian person might pronounce the title of an ACDC song”, then dude, you are totally racist. Seriously, that is not cool. Anyway, So US President Barack Obama is in Prague today with the dual mission of renewing the now expired Strategic arms reduction treaty and “resetting” diplomatic relations with Russia. Now I know what you’re thinking, and yes, it sickens me too. Yet another day of slacking-off for mister “I’ve been in office for nearly 15 months and haven’t fixed the world yet”.
Apparently the abbreviation they us for the strategic arms reduction treaty is START, as opposed to SART, which is something that totally annoys me. I absolutely hate it when people pick out random letters purely to make their abbreviation sound more “snappy”. In the spirit of this I’ve decided to use my own, equally logical abstraction, so from here onwards the treaty will simply be referred to as ARSE.
In a shocking turn of events, it seems I commented on something which has hampered efforts to create a new ARSE over the past year, namely the United States’ on again, off again plans to locate a missile defence system right on Russia’s doorstep. Tonight we’re gonna posture like it’s 1989 has the details of that whole fiasco. I swear, sometimes it’s almost as if there’s an element of cohesion to what goes on around here. In any case, the Ruskies seem slightly more enamoured with Obama’s plans for fending off the Iranians, if and when they decide to start some “next level shit“, however they have still threatened to withdraw from the ARSE if American plans interfere with the Russian’s own nuclear deterrent. The Irish Times reports;
Before becoming president, Mr Obama was deeply sceptical about the need for missile defence, but it is a favoured project of more hawkish elements of his own administration and the Republicans whose support he seeks to ensure ARSE is smoothly ratified by the US Senate.
In his meeting with Mr Medvedev, Mr Obama is expected to reiterate that missile defence is not intended to threaten Russia, and that the new ARSE should not be seen as a conclusion but only a first step in reducing the deadly stockpiles of the two nuclear superpowers.
He will also seek to convince his Russian counterpart to support tougher UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear ambitions. Moscow has significant clout in Iran, where it has built, but so far declined to launch, a new nuclear reactor. Mr Obama is expected to press Chinese president Hu Jintao on the same issue at next week’s nuclear security summit.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that next week Obama is hosting a 47-nation summit on nuclear prolifferation. Anyway, for now Barack really does seem to have his hands full, considering the US and Russia really haven’t been getting on lately. It’s not entirely surprising really, considering that little snaffu in Georgia a while ago, and the fact that in all likelihood President Medvedev is merely a puppet controlled by Vladimir Putin, who may very well be Lucifer himself.
Adding to this the suspicion that Russia has been quietly attempting to recreate “spheres of influence” within it’s satelite states in recent years, much like the Soviet Union. From what I gather it’s about oil and gas contracts, stuff like that. I say suspicion, but I might as well say wild speculation, you know what those Russians are like, they’re all the same, bunch of know-nothing, unreliable drunks.
