What does this sentence mean in English?

Question

Putin warned over the weekend that Moscow could take "retaliatory steps" including aiming nuclear weapons at U.S. military bases in Europe.

Answer 1

" Senior Pentagon advisor Richard Perle said Russia "should be excluded" from the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations for its arrest at gunpoint of its top oil baron, it was reported. "Not one of the G8 countries would allow itself to behave in such a way with one of its leading businessmen," the US Defence Department advisor said of the arrest last Saturday of the head of the Yukos oil giant Mikhail Khodorkovsky in an interview published Thursday in the business daily Kommersant, warning that Russia was "heading in the wrong direction." Khodorkovsky, whose oil group is the centre of a wide-ranging fraud investigation, was surrounded by armed security forces in a dawn raid at an airport in Siberia while he was on a business trip and flown back to Moscow. He was charged on seven counts of fraud, including one of embezzling the state of more than one billion dollars, and imprisoned.

Answer 2

It means that Putin thinks the U.S. is making very threatening moves in its locations of bases and missiles. Also, he believes that the expansion of NATO to former Soviet countries is a direct threat to Russia.

Basically, Putin is saying he will flex his political/diplomatic muscles in order to prove he won't be marginalized in world affairs.

Answer 3

What this means is; if Bush continues with putting missile defense sights in Europe, Putin will reaim Russias nuclear missiles.

During the cold war, the U.S. and USSR had hundreds of nuclear missiles pointed at each other. If one of the countries had loosed one of them, the other would have retaliated by sending their own...which would have lead to nuclear war - which would have been over in about 3 hours with complete anihilation of most of the living things on the face of the earth. It took 40 years for diplomats and leaders to negotiate out of the Cold War and everyone put their missiles to sleep and stopped the nonsense.

George Bush, the madman and tyrant, by his remarks and actions have started firing the cold war up once again by his threats. Russia has the right to defend itself against this crazy man that we allow to stay in power. I have no doubt that Bush wouldn't think twice about using a nuclear weapon on another country if he woke up some Sunday morning and "god" told him to. He is crazy.....and we don't do anything about it.

Answer 4

It means that if the US backs out of the 1970 Non-proliferation treaty as the Bush administration has announced, the arms race will start back up.

Answer 5

It means they feel threatened that we are not just putting in missles to shoot down other missles. It means he has no faith in what Bush is saying. Would President Bush lie to Russia? Would he lie to anyone? Perhaps the American public?

Answer 6

It means that the Bush Administration is well on schedule to take us to World War 3.

Answer 7

It means that Bush is bound and determined to keep this country on a war footing. He hates the idea of peace.

Answer 8

nuclear weapons could be aimed at US bases as a form of retaliation


cant Putin.. ummmm have a unfortunate accident ?

Answer 9

It means "The United States is not in any position to tell anyone what to do or how to behave. If they continue to insist upon doing so, we'll have to push back."

Congratulations, bush. You've succeeded in alienating yet another international leader with your bullying.

Can somebody make bush sit in the corner?

Answer 10

Very little. If the Russians weren't already targetting US military bases and population centers, I'd be very surprised.