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To: Ilaine who wrote (5809)	7/13/2001 11:56:38 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Russians in NATO? Putin's war in Chechenya - nytimes.com

To: Ilaine who wrote (5809)	7/13/2001 12:21:56 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi CB, NMD is technically extremely difficult, even under laboratory conditions; operationally not dependable, in the field, ever; militarily useless, for all of the 30 minutes that will not matter to this world; diplomatically inadvisable, and strategically not wise. But, other than all of the above shortcomings, it is OK as a venue for government fiscal sink. The work will, however have spin-off applications in many unrelated fields, but as in all technologies, its original intended role will be counter-balanced by other technologies. America can invent it, but Russia and China will build more of it cheaper, and the folks who is really willing to use plutoium technology against the US will ignore it and assemble their toys on site in Manhattan. Chugs, Jay

To: Ilaine who wrote (5809)	11/17/2004 11:41:22 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hello CB, regarding NMD and our earlier discussions Message 16071753 <<July 13th, 2001>> ... here is today's development, as any rational and logical being ought to naturally expect ... story.news.yahoo.com Russia Developing New Nuclear Missile spacedaily.com China Plans To Have Over 100 Eyes In The Sky By 2020 ... and now that we can count on Condi Rice to be her charming self, this initiative ought to get smooth sailing from the breakaway members eubusiness.com , an unseemly free-for-all coming up, viva le France. In the mean time, some asymmetric concepts are being worked out, marrying fast and stealthy sinodefence.com to stuff learnt from the Russians sinodefence.com , all in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, I guess. Flipping through the docs, I found this sinodefence.com and reference to China, CIA, and ... "As well as being equipped by the PLA, the Type 69 has also been exported in significant numbers to many foreign customers, including the Mujahideen in Afghanistan under the covered co-operations between China and CIA in the 1980s against the Soviet Union" ... and so we now know how them RPGs got into the wrong hands. I would suspect that the Saudis probably were asked by the CIA to pay for the RPGs. Just another guess. What a muddled affair. BTW, I am guessing now that the US is solidly in Iraq for whatever right or wrong reasons, it actually must stay there, else the mess will spread, now that the puss bag is pierced. The real dominos in the ME desert are far more consequential then fake dominos in the jungles of SE Asia. It all makes for very busy times, and cut taxes too ... should be interesting, a spectacle of sort. Chugs, Jay P.S. Over all geopolitical situation may be that we are still here Message 15853335 <<May 25th, 2001>> with no particular progress of note.