Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations

with Vitaly Churkin
in Current Affairs
on Thursday, April 8, 2010 * * * * *

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President Obama and President Medvedev signed an historic nuclear arms agreement in Prague. We talk with Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations on the nature and future of US/Russian relations.

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    1. NeilMacCallister  04/10/2010 08:44 PM Report

      "Say, 'Mant", .."is that a book you've got? How did you get it? ..if I bang my cup on these dungeon bars, ..will they come down here and let me have one too?"

      "I've still got those pages from 'Crime and Punishment', ..and that dust jacket from 'Darkness at Noon', ..do you still want to trade for that tail of rat?"

      "You know, I've heard a secret that I may be able to use to get a full copy of 'The Queen of Spades', ..should I believe such a promise?"

      "C'mon 'Mant, ..I know your over there, ..I can hear you breathing!"

      "Did you hear what the guards were saying they heard on Charlie Rose tonight? ..They said the Russian Ambassador was there proudly proclaiming there is no longer any difference between our countries."

      "That's good isn't it?"

      "I hear in Russia, sometimes people are let out of places like this."

      "I don't know,..

      "Hey? ..You still got that rat, or what??"

    2. REMant  04/09/2010 09:03 PM Report

      Let's face it, keeping thousands of ancient warheads and rusting missiles and aircraft to deliver them is a very expensive business, which neither signatory can at present afford, nor do they need to - the world is destroying itself just fine without them. No one can afford that kind of silliness anymore. If we don't hang together, we doubtless WILL all hang separately. We need unfortunately to keep some such weapons, for the same reason an economy needs gold and silver to keep it honest and the 2nd Amendment cannot be abandoned, but they should only serve as a foundation for better things. While it is possible for one or two powers to dominate the rest, it involves moral hazard, repression, resentments, and can't be maintained anyhow. A balance of power yielding individual dignity - in other words, a republic - is the only way to promote peace.