As for missile defense, they used to announce the results of failure after failure until they increased the security classification so that we have no idea whether it has any chance of semblence of working.

Remember that such a “defense” might only work in a “second strike” mode – e.g. we nuke Russia first and then handle the residual disjointed response with the defense…. which is why they worry. Would the US ever attack a nation first? Ask Ghaddaffi!

Silly paranoid Rooskies!

I will respectfully dissent in this case. While there is some evidence that there was some “outside” help in the Egyptian revolution, none exists in the incidents in Russia. The reason it does not exist, is because we did no such thing in Russia. ROSKOSMOS head Popovkin admitted that due to limited funding, some shortcuts were taken that were risky to the Phobos-Grunt mission. A commission examining the mishap later confirmed that the incident was caused by a programming error. Nothing more.

As for demonstrations in Russia… we did not need to help them along. The protests against government corruption and fraud had been growing on their own for years, and thanks to the advent of social media, blogs, etc., which the government would love to shut down, but cannot, those protests are well attended and well advertized. Additionally, our “operatives” there are very well observed by the FSB. The only reason the accusation was even made was because of the level of dissent and the perceived decline in popular support for the ruling elite.