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Russian missile launch fails...
« on: February 18, 2004, 05:42:05 AM »
Wish I had a picture of Putins face when this happened...

I can't find a clear description of exactly what happened, some reports said the missle launch just never happened, others said the missile launched, then disintegrated in the air.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48229-2004Feb17?language=printer
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Re: Russian missile launch fails...
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2004, 10:36:45 AM »
They're now saying two ICBM's were fired, both disintegrating midair.

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 It does however tell us who they perceive their true enemies to be (hint: Al Qaeda/Chechens don't have a navy).

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More along those lines...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/18/wrus18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/18/ixworld.html
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Re: Russian missile launch fails...
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2004, 10:57:05 AM »
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And I was hoping that it would be possible to ditch the Swedish military! Impossible, I guess! :-)


Naaa... I wouldn't worry about it, [conspiracy nut] Our test of SDI that coincided with, and ruined their test proved succesful [/conspiracy nut]  ;-)

(Sometimes I wish I was the President just so I could make Trollish phonecalls on the red phone to other nations at times like this... "Putin, this is Bush, hey, we should go hunting soon, oh, by the way, did our SDI lasers hit your missles ok? We have an office pool going and I need the score!")
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Re: Russian missile launch fails...
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2004, 02:51:06 AM »
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Time to finish digging that bomb shelter in the back yard, the reds are coming... again...


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My house was built with one, we have it filled with old clothes and crap.
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Re: Russian missile launch fails...
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2004, 10:37:01 AM »
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As a teen in the 80's, the threat seemed real.

The threat *was* real! The nuclear buildup was astronomical, and the "military tension" in the air was really thick and felt by everyone. It permeated everything, even entertainment, as can be seen in cold war era movies like "spies like us", "wargames", "real genius", "red dawn", "Amerika", "The morning after", etc.

Everyone was literally waiting for WWIII. I'm dissapointed that this isn't documented very well in any documentaries I've seen, but in casual conversation, everyone in this country was talking about it. No documentary has recorded this very well.

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 I had a friend who's father literally had a stockpile of guns and a garage full of military grade freeze dried food. His father was no nut either, and this was not off in the backwoods somewhere(though Cuba is only ~90 miles off the FL coast). "The reds are coming", how many times did you here that? I'd bet most people our age and older still have a deep distrust of Russian people when it really comes down to it.


I didn't really "distrust" the Russians, I sort of had a certain respect for them, somewhat analgous to the way you shake hands before starting a boxing match... I don't know, hard to explain I guess. I distrusted them in the same way you distrust an opponent in chess... you know he's trying to win and you're in his way... :-)

I don't know if it's a good idea or not, but I'm kind of nostalgic about the cold war, I sort of felt safer about world stability with two superpowers posed in stasis. It felt like "order" as opposed to the feeling the world has now, it feels like anarchy now that the world isn't divided into "us" and "them. "

These ramblings have been brought to you by sleep deprivation.
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