http://www.nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=8743&ntid=&pg=2

Sign up for the Webiniar. You will for sure get to meet a lot of Russian and Chinese agents. I’ll be at the convention. I’m looking for nanotech investments. I think the Capital gains taxes will be waived on serious green tech investments. Something for my grandchildren’s trust fund. Israel isn’t putting much effort into nanotech because it won’t pay off for quite a while and Israel needs to think about survival right now.
The USA pulling out of HEL and taking the money with them was a serious blow to Israel.
Israel needs a way to disable ICBM’s before they hit, not nanotech. The solution to the Iranian problem is a 2 gigawatt Laser in geosynchronous orbit. Any missile getting higher then 100Km’s gets burned. Plus they know they can get nanotech later. The next POTUS will give it to them for help with the Jewish lobby in getting rid of the Usurper.

Mr. X, where is your proof that the “cold war” is over? The Soviet Union morphed back into it’s Russian roots. It now continues under a tyrant. Given that Socialism and Communism are vehicles for tyrants to seize power, I submit to you that there has been no change in Russia, beyond the minor detail of the Tyrants name. Russia missed the train to Self-governance (democracy).
You can hide you head in the sand, but that will just produce what it always does. A sore butt.

Also, as David Goldman (aka the Asia Times Spengler) is well aware, the Israelis had no problems turning off the S-300s supplied to Syria to protect their reactor that was quietly bombed last year. So…who do you think sold Israel the “off switch” to a Russian SAM system do that? Furthermore, if Russia is so against Israel why is it buying UAVs from the Israelis for the Russian military?

All you old fart Cold Warriors who think Russia is simply repeating the Brezhnev era tactic of dumping a lot of weapons into the Mideast in hopes of jacking up world oil prices should think again.

Russia does not merely want avionics from Israel. It wants nanotechnology.

LR incidentally has a hardcore group of followers, some of who are probably Banderisti from Lyov (in other words drawn from the tiny minority of Ukrainians who are hardcore nationalists and who work with generous heapings of Soros cash to convince right wing Americans that their pro-NATO Russophobic views represent the wishes of more than 10% of the Ukrainian population). Others are certifiable John Birchers. All whether they know it or not are members of the anti-Russia lobby in D.C., a lobby that dare not speak its name unlike the pro-Israel or CAIR Islamic lobby.

The downside for this crowd is, over here at PJM, “she” cannot censor comments asking pointed questions about who pays for the nearly six days a week “Russia is doomed/Russians deserve to die off” hatefest. Far more than the average heaping of amateur blog posts, I would say, especially if the author really lives in New York (Alexandria, VA is more likely, and closer to both Jamestown and Scheunemann’s latest lobbying shop).

Wretchard the Cat however is a shrewd and astute observer of global politics who does not let the Cold War baggage excessively blinker his analysis. The boys at Stratfor down in Austin have some of that too, in the sense that George Friedman is an old Cold Warrior and it is difficult to take what he says about Russia seriously after he predicted that the U.S. might have to fight Mexico and Poland to death somewhere around 2050. But at least Stratfor is not blinded by wishful thinking that Russia will simply demographically die off and be absorbed by the Chinese and Islamic hordes (both of whom presumably will sell Russia’s natural resources cheaper to the West, or so the neocons hope as in a repeat of the Nineties when Czar Boris and the oligarchs gave them $10 a barrel oil). No, both Wretchard and Stratfor know, even if they are not aware of the country’s recent demographic uptick, that Russia is back and will remain a force in world politics barring some catastrophe for decades to come.

Wretchard’s essential issue re: Moscow is that the Russians seem to know what they want, whereas our own feckless elites really just want to collect Nobels and be universally loved, keep printing money to prop up their personal power, etc.

Anyone else remember the moon race? The Soviets never did get a man to the moon, so they started a propaganda campaign to discredit the American accomplishment. Meanwhile the technology developed from putting a man on the moon is used everyday all across the planet. It has poured a LOT more money into America coffers then all the OIL in Russia ever will. Not to mention JDAM’s, JSTAR, and a host of other military applications.
Technology breeds technology. when you steal a thing, you cut yourself off from the technology development needed to create that thing yourself, PLUS all the other things farther down that tech tree.

Ella, where is your evidence that the West is losing it’s fight? Europe is, but the USA isn’t.

You are wrong. You are saying that Russia will have no Western allies in its fight against islamists, but West is loosing its fight . On the other hand Russia may have an ally in China which also have a large islamists problem, and China will be better ally to deal with islamists – they both have very radical way of dealing with their problems in contrast to Europe and America.
Russia wants to corner European supply of natural gas. In return for selling weapons to Iran it has an ally in cornering natural gas supply to Europe.
Russia also has oil so it has no problem in nuclear Iran. Iran does not aims its nuclear weapons against Russia and if Iran attack Israel, Russia will be one of the major oil suppliers for China and Europe. And the price of oil will drastically increase.
So really it is win-win situation for Russia.