Gosh, when you put it that way it just seems nuts, doesn't it?
Anyway, the NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said:
"Russia and NATO ... have a shared interest to protect our populations against a real missile threat, and it would definitely be a waste of valuable money if Russia started to invest heavily in countermeasures against an artificial enemy that doesn't exist."
Plug that statement into Bureaucrat-to-English translation and you get:
"Get a clue you effing paranoid nutballs. You really want to waste money on a fantasy scenario of NATO invading you behind a nuclear missile defense shield? Really? Dude, get a life."
Does the Russian government line really resonate with the Russian people? If so, they really must drink more heavily than I thought they did.
Just how do you reset this type of thinking?