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jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago
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The big fly in this ointment is that it is in Russia's interest for Iran to have a nuclear arsenal. I certainly hope that Mr. Obama and his administration are aware of that little card up the Kremlin's sleeve.
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Saving $100 million a year in logistics for Afghanistan is nice. But, the Kremlin knows that Afghanistan is not particularly important strategically... and anything they can do to facilitate the diversion of American focus away from strategically important situations such as Iraq and Iran is likely to be in their interest.-
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rimbaud5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Afghanistan is strategically important to the Russians, and they have planty to gain by our success there... as does Iran. Once again, as in Iraq, our interests (in both Iraq and Afghanistan) converge with Iran's (and Russia's). Our interests in keeping Iran from developing nuclear weapons converge with Russia's, and we have an interest in getting at least the Russians, if not ourselves, in to Iran's nuclear fuel development programs.
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jimdoze5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Russia has an interest in seeing to it that Iran gets nuclear weapons. A nuclear Iran sitting astride the daily flow of a class of commodities absolutely essential to the world economy enhances the relative value of Russia's store of those same commodities.
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Furthermore, Russia has already shown their willingness to use the restriction of the flow of those commodities to achieve political ends. Can there be any doubt that Iran would do the same? -
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CHAM5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Wasn't our interest in Afghanistan and Russia, before the Russian invasion, that nasty little ole oil pipeline that Russia wanted to build thru Afghanistan ? As I recall the American and British Oil Cartels didn't want the competition.
Seems their and our position is that it wasn't a problem unless the other Oil concerns were in possession of it. Lot of Oil money involved there.
Wasn't that what the original Afghan war was about?
Now if they can co-op to co-own the oil.............
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