From the Drudge website, 12:25 am Eastern, 3/24/99:

"Russia's Defense and Foreign Ministries have been working on options to act, in connection with possible NATO strikes against Yugoslavia... All actions by the Defense Ministry will be aimed at increasing the combat readiness of Russia's armed forces. According to the information available to ITAR-TASS newswire on Wednesday morning, in case the situation takes an unfavorable turn for Russia, the Ministry is preparing proposals on possible deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Byelorussia. Military officials are seriously considering the possibility of Russia's withdrawal from earlier agreements within the framework of the Russian-US commission as regards Russian arms supplies to Iran. Russia may order its peacekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina "not to take orders from NATO generals and only obey instructions from the Russian General Staff"... DEVELOPING HOT..."

-- Roger (roger@wilco.com), March 24, 1999

Answers

Gee,

I wonder if that means we'll quit sending them free food.

Doubt it.

Jollyskaya nyet!

-- Jollyprez (jolly@prez.com), March 24, 1999.

For much more about this, see the current thread:

What do you think of todays world events?

xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx

-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), March 24, 1999.

Here are current headlines from:

Tass - Russian News Agency

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), March 24, 1999.

Military officials are seriously considering the possibility of Russia's withdrawal from earlier agreements within the framework of the Russian-US commission as regards Russian arms supplies to Iran. Russia may order its peacekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina "not to take orders from NATO generals and only obey instructions from the Russian General Staff"

I guess we can look forward to all y2k efforts being halted by them as well, putting them and their already deficient nuclear weapons/power facilities further behind on any repair/testing for the turn of the century. Folks, it doesn't matter how well the US is y2k prepared with other countries in this shape. Not to mention the uncertainty of military actions fixing to take place.

Mr. K
***worried***

-- Mr. Kennedy (not@all.happy), March 24, 1999.

I read somewhere on the Internet (sorry, I've done too much reading lately) that the Russians have about 5 times as many nukes as we have and that they are going to have a window of about 4 1/2 months where we are rather helpless because of the time rollback of the GPS. Combine that with what is going on now, and I become rather worried. If the GPS will not effect our defenses, let me know, because it will be one less thing for me to wonder and worry about.

-- linda (smitmom@hotmail.com), March 24, 1999.

Linda ---

I work full time with GPS for a state agency. To answer your question:

The GPS rollover COULD affect our defenses, but probably not. The main problem is, like Y2K, there are so many uncertainties. The rollover problem has mainly to do with the receiving equipment and software on Earth, not the sattelites themselves. Fixes available, so you would think everything SHOULD be ok. Call me paranoid, but if the rollover prep was as convoluted and confused as the governments Y2K prep ......... WOW. But the rollover problem is so much smaller interms of nunbers, it will PROBABLY be corrected, even by the government. But there is once again a high element of uncertainty.

As far as Russia, we may find out that character DOES matter, unfortunately paying for 6 years lack of it may cost the rest of us a lot more than slick willie.

-- Jon Johnson (narnia4@usa.net), March 24, 1999.

yes WWIII has arrived rather more quickly than I'd hoped, sooner or later the Russians will snap, maybe its happening now, the Bear (although motheaten) can still maul

-- dick of the dale (rdale@coynet.com), March 24, 1999.

It all just gets dicier and dicier, doesnt it?

Diane *Sigh*

BTW, I watched news coverage last night on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Doing a good job of daily wrap-up coverage. Much better than the major newsmedia. You may way to occasionally check the full transcripts at ...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

Search

http://www.pbs.org/ newshour/search.html

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), March 24, 1999.

Jon Johnson,

Do you know anything about the GPS testing that was conducted about three weeks ago now?

-- Wondering (aboutGPS@testing.com), March 24, 1999.