4:51PM
Another good take on Putin's "silver bullet"
Monday, November 22, 2004 at 4:51PM ■"Putin: Russia to Deploy Missiles 'Unlikely to Exist' Elsewhere," by Peter Finn, Washington Post, 18 November 2004, p. A25.
Besides Putin reminding us that Russia mattered, this story offers another reason why he made this announcement about a new nuclear missile system that is unique: he wants to be able to declare that, as far as Russia is concerned, our new missile defense system is no big deal.
True or not? Doesn't matter. Only the declaration matters. He's saying that as far as he and Russia are concerned, mutually-assured destruction between them and us is not altered one whit.
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