Seconds out, round two!

Of the cold war no less.

So what an awesome time we live in, where two crazy power hungry nutjobs are going to take us to the brink of annihilation. Well, I suppose it has been nearly 20 years since the last time we all thought the world was doomed. It is about time for an updated and reimagined modern version of the old classic.

I can't even bring myself to look at this seriously. On one side we have a man who is believed to have (at best) an average IQ, and has gone on record as saying that God has spoken directly to him. On the other side we have a man with a huge powerbase massive political influence and who has been accused of working to subvert democracy to extend his rule. And now they're deciding to use terms like Mutually Assured Destruction. Oh goodie.

This is all because the Americans want to put a series of interceptor missiles in Poland in order to (and this is a quote from the US Secretary of Defence) "Protect the homeland".

Russia are rather twitchy as these missiles are rather closer to them than any part of the US. The secretary (apparently to help sooth Russian nerves) pointed out that these missles would help defend the US of A from emerging threats in the middle east. Now, please direct your attention to the map I've supplied with this post. Here you will see that Poland, is equidistant from both the US and the middle east. So does this make his claim a valid one? Probably not. While it is true that Poland is around the same distance from both America & the Middle East, that distance is 'fucking miles away'. Compare this to the distance between Poland & Moscow. Well that looks much more like what laymen like myself like to call 'missile range'. I'm starting to see why Mr Putin is feeling a mite twitchy.

I look forward to President Bush linking the need for a permanent moonbase to his war on terrorism. Sheesh.