Thursday, July 8, 2010

Trade Season


With the summer trade deadline coming up next week, the Russians are looking to trade Igor V. Sutyagin for Anna Chapman.

Sutyagin was a Russian scientist before he was convicted by the Russians to 14 years for espionage.

Anna Chapman is the sultry Russian spy who was arrested last week on charges of spying for Russia.

Twenty-one years since the last trade between Russia and the United States, and a lot has changed since those days of suspicion. The Russians aren’t looking to crush the United States, and the United States isn’t using the Russians as a way to increase defense spending.

The breaking point is that Anna Chapman really doesn’t know too many secrets about United States because she was too busy getting drunk to do what she was suppose to do. You can’t blame the woman for liking the lifestyle that didn’t require her to be suspicious of every person she came in contact with and every car that passed her.

Sutyagin would be a great pick up for the United States, because his nuclear weapons specialty could help bolster an already strong United States team. It is reported that he is already familiar with the United States nuclear program, so he could start right away.

But the trade will also help the strained relationship between the two countries. The relationship used to include way too much distrust of the other, spending too much time trying to destroy the other, and a lot of lying about what they were really doing in secret locations.

When a relationship between two super powers is allowed to fester for too many years a lot of countries seek counseling from the United Nations, but right now the United Nations isn’t' interested in the trade. They didn’t stop any blockbuster trades during the Cold War, and it doesn’t look like they block any trades now.

The relationship did show some signs of life while Bill Clinton was president. Clinton did his best not to offend the Russians, and helped the Russians dismantle weapons of mass destruction in former countries of the Soviet Union.

Clinton also showed great patience when dealing with a drunken Yeltsin. A skill that could have strained the already shaky relationship between the two countries, but Clinton used it as a chance to show the true character of the United States, and that is that the United States will always be there for you.

The relationship between the two countries soured when Bush became president. It started when Vladimir Putin and his wife came to the White House to meet President Bush for the first time. Bush hugged Mrs. Putin and whispered something into her ear that made her blush.

The incident angered Putin to the point that he reverted back to his old KGB days and ordered a new wave of Russian spies be sent to the United States.

Obama did promise to change the way Washington did business, and by trading Anna Chapman to the Russians for Igor V. Sutyagin would be a big change from Bush policies that only seemed to anger allies and enemies alike.     

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