Russia: NATO expansion is such a grave threat to us, we’re selling arms to its member states:
Russia is eyeing a major arms sale to Greece, which would become the biggest sale to a NATO member country. In December, several Russian media outlets, including the government RIA-Novosti news agency, citing unidentified sources close to Russian-Greek negotiations, reported that Athens plans to buy Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles in a deal worth over 1.2 billion Euros ($1.76 billion). The contract is expected to be ratified by the Greek parliament in summer 2008, the reports said.
Russia is the Wal-Mart of arms sales, selling cheap, affordable weapons of suspect quality to the world’s second- and third-tier nations. Because of the at times frosty relations we maintain with some of those nations, one assumes more than a few would prefer to do business with the Russians–if the Russians could provide the same quality
