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WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets

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UPDATED: Friday, February 11, 2011 10:00
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Saturday, February 5, 2011 7:30 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

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Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.

The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.

Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that:

• America spied on Foreign Office ministers by gathering gossip on their private lives and professional relationships.


Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.j


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Obama really really hates the Brits. Sending back the Churchill bust, the ridiculous gifts, the DVDs which won't work.... it's worse than we knew... much worse.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Saturday, February 5, 2011 7:45 AM

WHOZIT


This may be why he signed it in private, I'm sure MSNBC will jump on this story.

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Saturday, February 5, 2011 7:52 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by whozit:
This may be why he signed it in private, I'm sure MSNBC will jump on this story.



I'm sure they're hard at work phonying up some meaningless " Yeah, but Bush ... " side piece too, which they'll spend 20 minutes on, after having uttered one sentence of the WikiLeaks story.

Then they'll remind everyone that Assange is a rapists, and Chris Matthews will say that Bush lied about WMD, and completely ignore anything that Obama and Hillary have done.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Saturday, February 5, 2011 9:53 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


As Biden might say... this is a pretty big fucking deal!




" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Saturday, February 5, 2011 10:37 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


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Professor Malcolm Chalmers said: “This appears to be significant because while the UK has announced how many missiles it possesses, there has been no way for the Russians to verify this. Over time, the unique identifiers will provide them with another data point to gauge the size of the British arsenal.”

Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems, said: “They want to find out whether Britain has more missiles than we say we have, and having the unique identifiers might help them.”



I don't care about busts and dvds - but this is not very good.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Saturday, February 5, 2011 5:59 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by kpo:

I don't care about busts and dvds - but this is not very good.

It's not personal. It's just war.




Not very good is mild. This has "suck" on so many levels.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Friday, February 11, 2011 10:00 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Obama is a Dark Knight of the British Empire.

My job for the US Govt was nuking Oxfordshire, under orders of NATO.

The Jew World Odor banksters own the British Empire since the Battle of Waterloo.

Soon the jews will own the planet, and you will be obsolete...

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