marcinmoka Posted April 6, 2007 Report Posted April 6, 2007 MOSCOW — Russia will convert its Pacific fleet into its biggest naval force to meet security threats in Asia where there are real risks of conflict, Russia's Sergei Ivanov, seen as a possible future president, said on Friday.Mr. Ivanov, a former defence minister promoted to First Deputy Prime Minister this year, said that Russia's northern fleet was its strongest during the Cold War years but that now there is less danger from the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "Well, who are we going to fight there? Relations with NATO are not so bad, but here the risks are greater," Russian news agencies quoted Mr. Ivanov as saying during a trip to Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East. Of Russia's four fleets, three – the Black Sea, Northern and Baltic fleets – are designed to cope with Western threats. The Pacific region, however, lacks any of the system of agreements and mechanisms that exist to keep peace in Europe, Mr. Ivanov said. - This seems like a rather interesting development, since Ivanov generally irked me and seems rather confrontational with the West. To hear that relations with NATO are not as bad (in light of the recent green lighting towards the Ballistic Missile Defence Shield installations in Poland and the Czech Republc) is quite a breath of fresh air, and should also signal to China that it is not as all mighty in the region as it had hoped. Could this signal a future (albeit slight) change in Russian Foreign Policy? Quote " Influence is far more powerful than control"
Guthrie Posted April 6, 2007 Report Posted April 6, 2007 I'm on pin and needle. Quote “Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal” - Benjamin Spock MD
ScottSA Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 I'm on pin and needle. Talking about your left and right frontal lobes again Woody? Quote
Higgly Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 So only the Yanks have the right to put warships in the Pacific? Please cite the relevant legal precedents and the appropriate authority... Quote "We have seen the enemy and he is us!". Pogo (Walt Kelly).
marcinmoka Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Posted April 7, 2007 So only the Yanks have the right to put warships in the Pacific?Please cite the relevant legal precedents and the appropriate authority... Who is the comment directed towards, and even more so, at what is this comment directed at? Quote " Influence is far more powerful than control"
Jerry Galinda Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Russians believes that - “We need cannons instead of butter!" Quote
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