Russia says new ICBM can penetrate any defense system; Putin warns against U.S. missile shield

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MOSCOW (AP) _ Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a Kremlin official boasted could penetrate any defense system, and President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe would turn the region into a "powder keg."

First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Russia tested an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple independent warheads, and it also successfully conducted a "preliminary" test of a tactical cruise missile that he said could fly farther than existing, similar weapons.

"As of today, Russia has new tactical and strategic complexes that are capable of overcoming any existing or future missile defense systems," Ivanov said, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. "So in terms of defense and security, Russians can look calmly to the country's future."

Ivanov is a former defense minister seen as a potential Kremlin favorite to succeed Putin next year. Both he and Putin have said repeatedly that Russia would continue to improve its nuclear arsenals and respond to U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic _ NATO nations that were in Moscow's front yard during the Cold War as Warsaw Pact members.

[BushOut06]

1. Bush to Russia - "Bring it on"

Seems to be his foreign policy - "Fuck you, bring it on."

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Here's the part about this whole thing that goes unsaid:

After 9/11, we had an unprecedented opportunity to unite the world and form lasting alliances that would completely avert this apparently revived arms race. Bush instead decided to abuse that opportunity to start a war that didn't need to be started in the first place.

Way to go, asshat. Way to go.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

3. Yes. The Bush cabal incited this reaction anticipated by a lot of smart,...

,...people outside the chest-thumping, profiteering, imperialistic neocon buttheads. UGH!!!

[BOSSHOG]

4. Vlad to george, My Dick's bigger then yours

[paparush]

5. Fucking Bastards (ours, not theirs)

I swear, Bush WANTS a nuclear war.

Do they really believe that a new, better civilization will rise from the ashes?
Who's going to do their cooking?
Where's their food gonna come from?
Where's their fuel going to come from?
Have the neocons built a truly functioning, self replicating biosphere somewhere?

This posturing, sabre rattling, provoking, is going to get a lot (more) people killed.

Our government is a threat to civilization's survival.

[Dark]

6. WTF? I thought we were done with this cold war bull shit.

Russia can't even feed its people, nor can it keep track of its current nuclear stockpile, and it's building MORE weapons?

Idiots.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. Nah, it's cool. Putin is a "good man" remember?

Bush looked into his soul.

[Rydz777]

8. Russia dropped Communism and is taking the short walk to

Fascism. Putin has virtually eliminated all opposition media, and reporters who get out of line are mysteriously shot on the stairs of their apartments. Defectors mysteriously die of radiation poisoning. But not to worry, Bush has invited Putin for a heart-to-heart at Kennebunkport. The two will straighten everything out.

[Johonny]

9. So

the new Russian ICBM can defeat a system that can't even hit a test target. Wow how am I not impressed.