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General News 12/10/2008 at 10:46 PM EST

The Cost of Hegemony Is Beyond Reach

By Jon Get A Clue (Page 1 of 1 pages) 1 comment

Undeterred by massive budget deficits from wars, a falling economy, and financial bailouts, the U.S. government has managed to start a new cold war with Russia. Last Friday, the Russian military announced that it was developing a new generation of ballistic missiles in response to the U.S. government's decision to deploy ballistic missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The "peace dividend" that the Reagan-Gorbachev accord provided has been squandered by an arrogant American government seeking world hegemony.

In 2002 the Bush regime unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that the U.S. government signed with the Soviet Union in 1972. This treaty stabilized the "mutual assured destruction" that prevented the two military superpowers from initiating war, thus averting a nuclear holocaust for 30 years.
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