Wednesday, January 12, 2011

French Ship Sale to Russia

Recently President Sarkozy of France announced that our ally, France, would sell advanced assault ships to Russia .
The French are selling advanced helicopter carriers to Russia .
Each one of the ships will cost only about $380 million. The construction will be a 50-50 venture, in which Russians will provide the brawn and the French will provide the brains.
These attack aircraft carriers can carry 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters, dozens of tanks, 450 personnel and up to 70 armored vehicles, including 13 battle tanks.
It was bad news that President Barack Husein Obama pushed through the START Treaty with Russia (the START Treaty allows everyone to recount their weapons).
The Russians have been placing increasing military pressure on their neighbors for years. Even Japan now may be threatened by these new weapons because, like it or not, Russia is an ally of North Korea , not the United States .
It will be a short time before the technology and weapons that the Russians buy with oil and gas money the French paid them to heat their homes and cook their bread will be used to threaten others.
Shortly after the attack on New York on 9/11 President Sarkozy was quoted as saying, “We are all Americans.”
Now he seems to be saying, “We are all Russians.”
I suppose the next step would be for Osama Bin Laden to crawl out of his hole and buy weapons for cash from the French and Sarkozy would be shouting, “We are all Terrorists!”

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