This kind of thing really makes me sick. While we start wars over low-grade, made-up weapons of mass destruction, we and our allies are publicly, unabashedly and seemingly without irony going about developing new and more efficient ways of destroying all life on earth.
Speaking at a meeting of the Armed Forces' leadership, Putin reportedly said that Russia is researching and successfully testing new nuclear missile systems.
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Earlier this year, a senior Defense Ministry official was quoted as telling news agencies that Russia had developed a weapon that could make the United States' proposed missile-defense system useless. Details were not given, but military analysts said the claimed new weapon could be a hypersonic cruise missile or maneuverable ballistic missile warheads.
It literally makes me ill. How can we expect to be credible in our bloody crusade to rid the world of weapons of mass murder when we operate under such incredible double standards? I'm not suggesting that we are credible -- we're not -- but anyone who is surprised that "our enemies" and the majority of the population of the world don't quite believe that our talk of freedom, democracy and peace is anything but self-serving, hypocritical nonsense can be added to the nuts list.
(Naturally, this story is about Russia's weapons, not ours. Rest assured, though, that we have and are still developing equally apocalyptic systems.)
