Dan: you hit the bull eye!

Zenster:

One might expect Russia to take pause at the notion of building an even larger nuclear arsenal. Russia’s frail military infrastructure nowhere near adequately guarantees that one of their own devices might not be stolen and used against them.

it is a bad habit to call identify the Country of Russia with criminal gang in kremlin. Will lead to even more alienating of PEOPLE from us. And also it shows total lack of understanding of what is going on there on you part.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to steal nukes in Russia. The level of security is UNBELIEVABLE. If something `gets stolen` it was designed to be TRANSFERED.

And on the military infrastructure:

kremlin maintains a very big special forces in numbers and they are extremely well paid and trained. It is in the numbers of hundred thousands troopers. They are also used to suppress internal decent.

There are underground bunkers build and remodeled, there are at least 50 thousand tanks, may be not very modern, but

DOES THE WESTERN EUROPE HAVE ADCOURAGE TO USE ANY FORCE IF SOVIET TANKS WILL ARRIVE IN EUROPEAN CITIES? I doubt there going to be ANY resistance AT ALL.

Narrowing what would otherwise be a “full spectrum” of response may well be one of the best messages to send the Russians. Either they learn to be a productive member of the world community or find that their insufficient military is nothing more than a liability.

Message sending NEVER works with gangsters and never worked. The only way WEST can survive is by actual change of REGIME in Moscow. There are things to be undertaken to do it:

1.it is a support of opposition to criminal regime

2.there is a way to limit kremlin nuclear capability: cut strategic metals supply to them.
They get uranium and zirconium from outside, from Ukraine mainly. That is the exact reason Ukrainian President was poisoned in 2004: he is married to american!!!

3.Since kremlin already DID oerform hostile acts towards our interest and Homeland: on 9-11, in Israel, and Lebanon, in Iran, around Georgia:

it is time to act NOT TO SEND MESSAGES. We have to seriously consider asymmetrical retaliation. This is a long story: what exactly to do, but it is clear from above in what direction it should go.

Yet one more reason why America’s interests in fighting global terrorism might have been better served by a display of massively disproportionate retaliation much earlier in our efforts to militarily engage Islam.

NOT DISPLAY: we have to take actions like ..yesterday. Wide actions, including total embargo on ANY trade with kremlin and Beijing and their allies; including imidiate switch away from oil and natural gas based economy done in several months.

Otherwise we will have to deal with WMD on our territory in a very near future. It will mean the end of USA and it is planned by communists.

and again Islamic threat is just instrumental in kremlin war against us