Obama to give US missile defense secrets to Russians
Decision comes amidst massive Russian military modernization while US faces upwards of $1 trillion in cuts
- U.S. SM-3
by Matt Lacy –
Coming on the heels of massive troop drawdowns and massive cuts to the U.S. military, the Obama administration is planning on sharing U.S. missile secrets with the Russians.
The military could face cuts of close to $1 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years. Currently the Pentagon is expected to cut $490 billion over the next 10 years, however another $500 billion in cuts could come because of the congressional deal reached last year during the debt ceiling debate.
As part of the cuts, for the first time since World War II, the U.S. will not have the ability to fight on two fronts at the same time.
Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman has said he wants the two war posture kept and believes it can be done even with the defense cuts. Coffman is a Marine Corps combat veteran who served in Iraq.
“I’m all for making cuts so long as they don’t compromise our national security. I’m afraid from what I’ve seen so far of the direction that the Obama administration wants to go, it does just that by signaling to our adversaries that we are incapable of simultaneously fighting two conflicts at the same time.”
On top of the cuts, president Obama has signaled Congress that he is considering sharing U.S. missile defense secrets with the Russians.
During the signing of the controversial Defense Authorization bill into law, Obama issued a signing statement indicating that he felt restrictions aimed at protecting top-secret data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 could impede his foreign policy authority.
The Washington times reported several weeks ago that U.S. officials were planning to provide Moscow with the data from the SM-3. The SM-3 is part of America’s missile defense program that was begun under President Ronald Reagan.
Reagan’s program was ridiculed in the press who called it Star Wars. The plan called for America to develop a missile shield to shoot down incoming nuclear missiles. The Star Wars program has been credited as the beginning of the end of the Cold War as Moscow realized they could not keep up with American know-how.
Security officials have expressed concern that the technical data provided to the Russians could compromise the system’s effectiveness and allow Russian technicians to counter the missile. The SM-3 is considered to be some of the most highly effective missile interceptors in the U.S. inventory.
The proposal to share our top secret technology while we are facing upwards of $1 trillion in defense cuts comes at a time when the Russians are doing the exact opposite.
DefenseTech has revealed that Russia is currently in the process of a 10 year, $640 billion military modernization.
The modernization will include 600 new aircraft, 1000 new choppers and an additional 100 vessels added to the Russian Navy including 20 submarines.
Section 1227 of the Defense Authorization bill prohibits spending any funds that will be used to give Russian leaders access to our top-secret missile defense technology as part of any agreement until Congress is sent a report identifying the secrets to be shared, steps to protect the data from being compromised and how the secrets will be used.
Additionally, the president must certify to Congress that the technology will not be shared by the Russians to any other countries.
During the signing ceremony, Obama indicated he did not feel bound by the requirements of section 1227, saying while he intends to keep Congress informed, he also intends to implement the section “in a manner that does not interfere with the president’s constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.”
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Oh My God…Is it me or is this treason. WHY IS HE DOING THIS? what do we gain from giving any country…secrets that could undermine our security. This president should be tried for treason. Why is the media not covering this. Were are the Republicans…asking why….asking to impeach him on this act alone? WHY?
UNBELIEAVABLE….. People – wake up…Obama wants to destroy our country and has no bones about it. Even this article treats this as if its just a diplomatic measure….not a troubling one. Im definitly sharing on FACEBOOK…
Wow, I feel so much more secure…..I can finally sleep at night……….
Pre-emptive appeasement. In case an Iran-USA war flares up, Russia has it’s word of honour to lose as well if it hits the USA. National pride in the eyes of all survivors will have a bitter taste if the USA fell only because Russia broke it’s word by striking when they were fighting. With this tech transfer, Russia probably has promised not to attack USA if Iran is attacked.
I hate to point this out, but as one who was following the Strategic Defense Initiative before it got the derogatory nickname Star Wars, when the Reagan administration got on board with the idea, Reagan had the hope that an effective missile shield held by the Russians and ourselves would be the basis for reducing the threatt of nuclear war. If only one side possessed such a defense, the result would be to force the other to icrease nuclear offensive capability to overwhelm the defenses of the other. The Soviets, in their typical fashion, rejected the idea, negotiated a limit on US and Soviet ABM infrastructure and then proceeded to flaunt those limits while our own liberals demanded that we unilaterally observe the terms of the treaty. I say this not to indicate that Reagan would approve of what Obama is proposing, circumstances change, but only to say that branding the mere thought of such a thing “treason” is a bit hyperbolic. On the other hand, given the track record of this administration, any idea they put forward must be greeted with extreme skepticism. The devil, as they say, is in the details.
Theodore Roosevelt, a traitor, committed the same treason towards the end of WWII, when he illegally carried on giving vast amounts of military equipment to Stalin under an abuse of the wartime lend lease agreement between the US and Russia. Stalin had made a speech during WWII that he intended to invade America in direct continuation of WWII, and that he wanted all of Europe under Boshevik control also, and Roosevelt knew this, but hid the fact from the American people and carried on arming the Russians against America for a full year after that speech. Fortunately, the death of Roosevelt on July 12th 1944 prevented this plan from coming to fruition. Obama is just the same and wants America to be under communism.
2.3 Trillion dollars went missing from the department of defense right before 9/11 are we all awake????
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The reason for this is not simple. Most of sane disposition realise that an attack on Iran would be insane. Taking that the bulk of America’s financial stakeholders are zionist or “friends of zion”, the power brokers of Iran are just as incidiously capitalist as those that rule America. The current “invations” of the middle east weaklings instrumenting fundamentalist Islam (i.e. the worst type of Islam) demonstrate that the “plan” is NOT to “judaise” the planet. For some time I have believed that the “predicted” world war three, if it were to take place at all, would be fraudulent.
Thank you for the final piece of the puzzle. The utopian goal of the dispassionate capitalist (industrialist) is communism. By communism I mean capitalism/communism of the Russian or Chinese philosophies. China is communist or capitalist? I’m confused. In fact, ostensibly nothing has changed in the “new” Russia/China. But taking the appalling history of how “communist” Russia was set up by zion, it is not good news for the people of America. The 60 million or so purged (a nice word for murder) by the Russian communist/zionist state were not Jews, but rather Koptic Christians (slavs). The bulk of the money that went into financing Russian “communism” came from American zionists.
So things are starting to make sense in relation to this article. Communist Russia tried to establish a meritocracy where the government were the industrialists, some external “accepted” resources were permitted, a cultural “elite” and a slavish population who were given just enough to survive. It didn’t work out that way because a few people realised what was up, but that was the dynamic that was wolfishly imposed. So from a utopial perspective capitalism/communism/zionism or whatever else you want to call it, requires a financial elite who govern, a cultural elite who give the people “hope”, a slavish people who earn enough to live ‘hand to mouth’ until they die (with potential for some income “tiers”, but no effective “middle class”).
That is why Russia is not a threat to the American power brokers (in fact they are quite the reverse), but the plebians are dumb and do nothing so who cares?
Like some awful John Le Carre novel.
Why not just invite the Ruskies for Lunch like the Mexicans and then let them stay!
Hard to believe any patriotic person would even countenance this.
And as for not being able to fight on two fronts at once…
Can you say Muslim/China/Russia
Thats three at last count!
Guess, it’s simple. For me it looks like “bribe” to get Russian support on some agendas US considers priority. It might be Afghanistan, Iran, China or whatever. It might be for exchange of Russians not moving their armies closer to EU borders as they threaten in response to anti-rocket shield. When it comes to Russia military it is in a horrible state, excluding nuclear rocket forces. 640 billions in ten years is peanuts, US spends twice that amount every year. In the end, nothing comes for free, that includes “secrets” that Russia might already know anyway thanks to our “best friends” from Israel. One more worthy point to underline is the fact that this whole article is written as if US military might has been irrevocably damaged by this token “favor” to Russkies. As expected, those two guys/girls below reacted with horror in response. Take a chill pill guys, you’ve been played like a piano by this author.
The gods who run this earth are crazy, they live amongst us. They can be the president in one country (any counrty in the world) one day and the they could be an actor another day in any country in the world. They are not human but am beginning to believe they created us to help them get through the next judgement that the EARTH is about to go through. Not humans but the EARTH. What is the reason they want so much nuclear power and weapons? I read once that when nuclear weapons are shot that it makes it cool in that area. Are we now going through the lake of FIRE ?? JUst a thought………..
And not a word on this from NBC, CBS, or ABC.
Remember This all you GIs,
Always practice OPSEC, a little bit of good info goes a far bad way!
We elect Senators and Representatives to publicly stop this kind of nonsense – not just to posture! If they do not act – they are just as guilty of the same kind of treason as the president.
Treason…….just now this is being discussed after all Obama has done to this Nation and he wants another term. Wake up folks, it’s later than you think. He has sailed us down the river without a paddle and can care less. I question and wonder who is really running our country? This all is just too much wrong and no one lifts a hand to stop Obama……….WHY? Maybe the PEOPLE will with their well thoughtout vote and vote well this time.