Remember when Russia was the USSR, and they could put pressure on meetings. Remember the cold war and the fear, those days are long gone, the arms dealers would have us think the world is stupid enough to get into a nuclear war.

And now because of over breeding! thinking that a war would come we have a population that have no longer has enough work apart from in the weapons industry a population that is ready for war with the rich and powerful leaders of the world!.

Ironic or what??

I am of Russian heritage, speak Russian, and have visited Russia.  I harbor no ill will towards my Russian cousins, but I am an American.  Every time I read this kind of story, I wish Russia would stop chasing ghosts.  The cold war is long over, and no one in the USA views Russia as the enemy anymore.  The paranoia and distraction over missile defense systems, that do not even exist as a viable option with today's technology, needs to end.  Both countries have more pressing economic and social concerns to address right now.  Haven't we all heard enough of this tired old story line?

If he wants to keep the nuclear shields in eastern Europe and Turkey, and his Noble "Peace" Prize at the same time, of course Russia should withdraw from the START Treaty. It couldn´t be simpler than that - he violates the treaty thus his promise to scrap the shields.

Remembering of course these are the same devils who gave smallpox infected blankets to the native americans after smoking peace pipe with them. And GoT and 911. Obomber seems to have joined a group of torturers and become one of them !

We should forget START.The world seemed to be more orderly before that.

I guess everyone knows how really bad people always act like they are so pure and harmless, then they sucker punch you and start kicking you in the head if you drop to the ground. Obama is such a fraud. He draws people in close and gives the sucker punch and kicks, then gets that puppy dog look again, as nothing bad ever happened and he wouldn't hurt a fly. The picture for this piece is a great representation of Obama's deceit.

CSTO, NATO, India nor China are each other enemies. All know that very well.

Where is the threat coming from then? From the things happening within Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Concerning Iran I would not be so sure about their intentions if I was Russia. Makarov has undoubtly his thinkings about that. So does Putin.

As I have made clear in my articles, one way Kremlin leaders likely hope to sidestep appearing responsible for launching a nuclear war is by provoking the West into throwing the first major punches of world war three. This is why NATO has been lured into the Balkans and why supposedly "former" Russian puppet states like North Korea and Iraq have been gradually pushing toward the brink of renewed conflicts with the West. As I have been emphasizing in my global war articles, either prior to or as part of drawing the West into major conflicts at these flashpoints, Moscow is planning to stage a right-wing coup, possibly involving Vladimir Zhirinovsky's bogus rise to power. Since such a coup will be attributed to the failure of Western-style reform in Russia (possibly on top of Western military action against Russian allies-of-old like the Serbs?), the subsequent world war will be blamed on the West's failure to support Russia, the general shortcomings of Western democracy and Western imperialist military aggression. All in all, by staging a right-wing coup in Russia and drawing the West into major conflicts with historical Russian allies like the Serbs, North Korea and Iraq, an ideal scenario is created in which Moscow can unleash a global nuclear war and have it appear to be the West's own fault.

As a key part of the above strategy to reverse the blame for the coming war on to the West, Kremlin military planners are likely hoping to provoke Israel into launching the first nuclear blow of world war three. As explained toward the end of my articles "A Global War?" and "Global War Alert", with the U.S. and NATO forces tied-up in conflicts on the Korean Peninsula and in the Balkans, the way will be opened for Russia's "Last Dash to the South" (the title of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's supposed autobiography) and an Arab onslaught against Israel since the Western powers will be unable to defend the Middle East and protect Israel like occurred during the Arab surprise attack on the Jewish state in 1973. Thus, Israel will be forced to resort to its "Samson Option" of nuclear retaliation against the Arabs and Russia in the face of being overrun. (Notably, a chemical and/or biological missile attack against Israel by Saddam Hussein, backed by a new Russian dictator like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, may even be sufficient to elicit an Israel nuclear strike against Russia.)