Comments on: Don’t Wake the Sleeping Bear http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/11/01/don%e2%80%99t-wake-the-sleeping-bear/ Make the World free from WMD Fri, 18 May 2012 04:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: alice slater http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/11/01/don%e2%80%99t-wake-the-sleeping-bear/#comment-3479 alice slater Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:11:45 +0000 http://blog.daisyalliance.org/2008/11/01/don%e2%80%99t-wake-the-sleeping-bear/#comment-3479 The bald assertion that Russia invaded Georgia, without acknowledging the initial invasion by Georgia of South Osetia with US support, undermines the authors credibility as to the possibility for meaningful arms reductions between the US and Russia. Until NATO expansion is stopped, and the US foregoes plans to plant missile bases under Russia's nose in the Czech Republic and Poland, in contradiction of promises made to Gorbachev, that NATO would not be expanded after the fall of the Berlin wall, we will not have a willing negotiating partner in Russia. Nor will we be able to coax China to the nuclear disarmament table unless the US foregoes its plans to dominate and control the military use of space, and changes its lone "NO" vote at the UN to a Russian/Chinese proposal to negotiate a treaty to ban space weapons. The bald assertion that Russia invaded Georgia, without acknowledging the initial invasion by Georgia of South Osetia with US support, undermines the authors credibility as to the possibility for meaningful arms reductions between the US and Russia. Until NATO expansion is stopped, and the US foregoes plans to plant missile bases under Russia’s nose in the Czech Republic and Poland, in contradiction of promises made to Gorbachev, that NATO would not be expanded after the fall of the Berlin wall, we will not have a willing negotiating partner in Russia. Nor will we be able to coax China to the nuclear disarmament table unless the US foregoes its plans to dominate and control the military use of space, and changes its lone “NO” vote at the UN to a Russian/Chinese proposal to negotiate a treaty to ban space weapons.

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