Thank Goodness for Google Language Tools

NATO's top civilian had some polite words for our Russian friends who inexplicably keep insisting that they need the right to efficiently nuke Europe without worrying that a thin missile shield designed to stop missiles from Iran might be able to knock down some Russian missiles flying at NATO.

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?