Good job!

P.S.: On vibration sensors: Road and railroad traffic monitoring.

Vladimir Putin went on record in a 2005 speech to his fellow Russians as saying “Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century….”

Since then, Putin has steadily striven to make his nostalgia for the sovetskaya soyuz a real driver of Russian foreign and domestic policy. It’s not “paranoia” or, as Politifact.com tried to spin it in their analysis, “word choice” by former US ambassador to the United States, John Bolton (they were dissecting an interview he had on the Fox News Channel, trying to create the impression Fox or Bolton, or both, had exaggerated the threat of a resurgent expansionist Russia).

Now, with 20/20 hindsight, it seems that it wasn’t just a threat – Russia IS expanding its territory militarily under the umbrella of a much more aggressively maintained nuclear deterrent than ours.

We can’t un-invent nuclear weapons – and other nations have them, South Africa and the Ukraine being the only nations to willingly give them up. I’m sure the Ukraine is ruing that decision, just now, since the Donetsk basin is effectively in the hands of rebels supported by their local nuclear-armed hegemon.

The mistaken emphasis on assuring that OUR nuclear umbrella won’t expand or become more threatening is really moot now.

Not one, but two would-be regional hegemons exist, China and Russia, with significant ICBM arsenals capable of destroying our land-based nuclear force and almost as an afterthought, killing millions of Americans with fallout from silo-busting.

Responsible heads of these nations’ militaries have made open threats against the United States and her allies in the past decade to use nuclear weapons. Russia has never repudiated threats by some of its officials to use nuclear devices over the American heartland to disrupt our net-centric economy.

Vladimir Putin went on record in a 2005 speech to his fellow Russians as saying “Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century….”

Since then, Putin has steadily striven to make his nostalgia for the sovetskaya soyuz a real driver of Russian foreign and domestic policy. It’s not “paranoia” or, as Politifact.com tried to spin it in their analysis, “word choice” by former US ambassador to the United States, John Bolton (they were dissecting an interview he had on the Fox News Channel, trying to create the impression Fox or Bolton, or both, had exaggerated the threat of a resurgent expansionist Russia).

Now, with 20/20 hindsight, it seems that it wasn’t just a threat – Russia IS expanding its territory militarily under the umbrella of a much more aggressively maintained nuclear deterrent than ours.

We can’t un-invent nuclear weapons – and other nations have them, South Africa and the Ukraine being the only nations to willingly give them up. I’m sure the Ukraine is ruing that decision, just now, since the Donetsk basin is effectively in the hands of rebels supported by their local nuclear-armed hegemon.

The mistaken emphasis on assuring that OUR nuclear umbrella won’t expand or become more threatening is really moot now.

Not one, but two would-be regional hegemons exist, China and Russia, with significant ICBM arsenals capable of destroying our land-based nuclear force and almost as an afterthought, killing millions of Americans with fallout from silo-busting.

Responsible heads of these nations’ militaries have made open threats against the United States and her allies in the past decade to use nuclear weapons. Russia has never repudiated threats by some of its officials to use nuclear devices over the American heartland to disrupt our net-centric economy.

I’m just wondering when FAS is going to look around and see how deterrence instability is working against America, for it surely is. Our “partners” Russia and China are more militarily adventurous than they’ve ever been.

Since we began this thread, I’ve taken a little flak for saying that what has been happening will happen. I didn’t want to be able to say “I told you so,” but….

OK, it’s a lame joke.
Isn’t the surveillance involved in determining “No Fly Lists” a 4th Amendment issue? Isn’t that what this is all about? The NSA/FBI supply the ‘data’, and the TSA is their agent. The Feds realized that the no fly lists are a joke, much abused, and a legal minefield. Actually, the whole process is a joke, as are the ‘redress’ policies; window dressing that doesn’t amount to shit.