If Russia joins US in "global fight" on terror?

[Toad]

Thank you for clarifying that. I'll note it for history's sake.

[Dowding]

Heh. Very funny.

[SLO]

Originally posted by Boroda
Agression against Yugoslavia was an open and clear operation of supporting terrorists. Wrong argument here.
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lol Boroda, actually it was GENOCIDE or if you prefer.....ETHNIC CLEANSING that got Yugo. in trouble.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by SLO
lol Boroda, actually it was GENOCIDE or if you prefer.....ETHNIC CLEANSING that got Yugo. in trouble.

Genocide accusations against Miloshevich were abandoned by international tribunal in Hague.

The number of victims before NATO bandits "interfered" was approximately 300 people on both sides.

And now, drumroll: in Autumn, 1998, Kosovo Liberation Army was declared a terrorist organisation by US Congress. So, you spent billions of dollars supporting terrorists and fighting Serbian police forces against international drug-dealers and slave-traders. It's hard to list all the violations of international laws that NATO agressors violated, including 1975 Helsinki declaration.

[Angus]

From Boroda:
"US armed both Iran and Iraq. So what? If they want to buy our weapons - it means that if we don't sell them - someone else will. And I am sure it will be US companies. "

Yep they sold a heck of arms to both, and still do sell arms to many many bad-arse nations of the world.
In the Iran-Iraq war, one of the Nations had primarily U.S. weapons, while the other had USSR made stuff.

Old USSR was always on top as the worlds biggest arms seller, followed by the US, then the French, then the UK, and then Sweden actually.
I don't know how it is today.

But todays terrorists are mostly armed with russian hardware. Seems to be a lot of it about, and it's usually good stuff.....

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Angus
Old USSR was always on top as the worlds biggest arms seller, followed by the US, then the French, then the UK, and then Sweden actually.
I don't know how it is today.

IIRC now we are at the third place after US and France, with US selling several times more weapons then Russia.

Originally posted by Angus
But todays terrorists are mostly armed with russian hardware. Seems to be a lot of it about, and it's usually good stuff.....

Soviet small arms are very simple, reliable and cheap to produce. And many weapons that you can call "Russian" are made in China, Romania and other former Socialist countries. You don't see modern Soviet/Russian weapons used by terrorists outside Chechnya. There are very few (if any) exported AK-74s or RPG-18s "Muha" ("Fly"), mostly Chinese 7.62mm AKs and RPG-7s.

[JBA]

Originally posted by Boroda

US armed both Iran and Iraq. So what? If they want to buy our weapons - it means that if we don't sell them - someone else will. And I am sure it will be US companies.

Would this be pre or post 1991 sanctions?

[Edbert]

Originally posted by Dowding
Contradictory on the surface, but only if you misunderstand what I meant and then take it out of context.

Now we know why you are a sKerry supporter at least.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by JBA
Would this be pre or post 1991 sanctions?

Unlike some "democratic" countries, Russian Federation respects international law. There were no weapon sales to Iraq since 1990, or, IIRC, even earlier.

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Ripsnort

That chin is OBSCENE!

Karaya

[Dowding]

Now we know why you are a sKerry supporter at least.

You idiot. What makes you think I'm even American?

[Angus]

I've got a russian gun myself.
It's ok,but I have to use tape to hold it together

I have a Czech gun as well. It's quite ok.

Guns in the old USSR period were very cheap indeed, and widely available.