Lisbon and the DPRK
JustAnotherAsshole
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So the United States and NATO have just announced that they will develop a new missile defense system to protect Europe from ballistic missile attack (Us being able to destroy their missiles removes Russia's tactical advantage). To keep up appearances, Russia smiles publicly and agrees with the decision, but in reality they are likely worried. Why would the U.S. make a move so incongruent to detente such as building new missile defense systems?
Russia ponders and realizes that the next reasonable step for the U.S. and it's allies would be to de-stabilize Russian allies.
Considering this, is it any coincidence that a day after the summit in Lisbon, it is revealed that North Korea most certainly possesses the means to quickly produce weapons grade uranium?
Furthermore, the site of the Nuclear facility is known to U.S. intelligence to have been completely empty less than a year ago. Now, there exists an (in the words of inspectors) "astonishingly modern" facility, equipped with thousands of new centrifuges and a hi-tech setup that everyone suspects they had foreign help building; that they couldn't have built on their own.
This development is the Russian answer to the agreement in Lisbon.
Russia ponders and realizes that the next reasonable step for the U.S. and it's allies would be to de-stabilize Russian allies.
Considering this, is it any coincidence that a day after the summit in Lisbon, it is revealed that North Korea most certainly possesses the means to quickly produce weapons grade uranium?
Furthermore, the site of the Nuclear facility is known to U.S. intelligence to have been completely empty less than a year ago. Now, there exists an (in the words of inspectors) "astonishingly modern" facility, equipped with thousands of new centrifuges and a hi-tech setup that everyone suspects they had foreign help building; that they couldn't have built on their own.
This development is the Russian answer to the agreement in Lisbon.