Earlier this week the Pakistani government closed all supply routes to NATO’s occupation forces in Afghanistan. Yesterday, Russia’s Ambassador warned they might close the northern route over objections on the missile defense shield. Neither nation’s ability to cut off half of the supplies is considered a deal-breaker for occupation forces, but analysts say that the combination threatens NATO with a “cold death trap” in landlocked Afghanistan, and so long as both sides continue to push NATO simultaneously it gives them more negotiating power than normal.
Now is the time for Russia and Pakistan to stick in the knife to NATO aggression and the Empire Plans of the Americans.
There will never be a better time to make them eat "humble pie".
The unbridled arrogance of the FedGov and its NATO creature is reaping its long-deserved harvest.
Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-wrote on the missiles in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." This leads to Launch On Warning, probably by 2014.
With Launch on Warning the whole edifice of MAD is gone and the instability that flows out of this is terrifying.
The analysis has a bit of an error. Rather than 90,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan as stated, the correct number is 100,000 American troops (of which 10,000 are under NATO) and 40,000 NATO/foreign allied troops. So 140,000 have to be supplied.
If both routes are cut, the only other options are Airlift, make nice with Iran, or hasty withdrawal out of Afghanistan. The question then becomes can airlift sustain the 6th Army while it's engaged in Obamagrad.