Russians luv Obama
The Wall Street Journal is reporting: U.S. Shelves Nuclear-Missile Shield: Czech Interim Prime Minister Gets Midnight Call. America’s Commander-in-Chief and former ACORN organizer, Barack Obama, is caving to the Russians who were furious about the system being built in Poland and the Czech Republic.
At least when Obama apologizes for the USA breaking its word he’ll be talking about himself and he’ll be begging for forgiveness from our European allies who already have begun bashing the ACORN Kid.
The UK Telegraph reports the USA surrendering to Russian (Barack Obama surrenders to Russia on Missile Defence) and aren’t very happy that Obama is not living up to commitments made by the USA.
This is bad news for all who care about the US commitment to the transatlantic alliance and the defence of Europe as well as the United States. It represents the appalling appeasement of Russian aggression and a willingness to sacrifice American allies on the altar of political expediency. A deal with the Russians to cancel missile defence installations sends a clear message that even Washington can be intimidated by the Russian bear."
Diagram of the Missile Defense System in Europe
Der Spiegel, a German news outlet writes in, Obama To Shelve Plan for Missile Shield in Eastern Europe,
“Critics believe Obama's moves on the missile shield could also be an attempt on the part of the US to win Moscow's backing for new sanctions against Iran. But there is growing concern in Eastern Europe that rapprochement between Washington and Moscow could come at the expense of the United States' allies in the former Eastern Bloc. "The Poles are nervous," one senior US military official told the newspaper.”
Poland feeling betrayed yet is still optimistic that promises could be kept as indicated by Poland's deputy foreign minister, Andrzej Kremer, who told Reuters Thursday there was a
"-strong chance that the shield project might be halted…In 10 days, Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski and I will go to Washington to find out," he said.
America’s favorite Pole former Polish President Lech Walesa weighed in that he was deeply disappointed by the new US administration's plans.
"The Americans have always only taken care of their own interests and they have used everyone else," Walesa told Polish news station TVN24. Lech added that Poles must rethink their own view of America and start thinking about their own interests and that he expected the Obama administration’s betrayal.
Sadly our Government’s incompetence and lack of honor spreading outside our borders and Americans used to me known around the world for honoring its agreements. Remember Warsaw and Washington signed an agreement a year ago to stationed 10 interceptor missiles in Poland. A US installation was supposed to have been built at the former air base Redzikowo in northwestern Poland.
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Dail, you are an absolute nutcase.
Well written article,once again a Democratic president stabs Poland in the back,FDR after WW2 and Obama now,disgusting!
what to expect for a Democrat(communist puppet)? Europe without American protection will try to protect itself and so we will be back to the 30'. don't blame us if we attack Russia again...
So you loons would rather waste billions on a system to defend against a non-existent threat than defend against the very real one?
First of all, the system was NOT to defend Europe - it was to defend the USA against a small number of Iranian ICBMs - which the intel folks now agree Iran is not going to have in the foreseeable future.
What they WILL have is hundreds of intermediate range missles that could hit Europe - and the new system specifically targets that threat. It's cheaper, more effective and will be in place 5-8 years sooner.
NATO likes it. And for all the hand-wringing about Poland, they still will get an American tripwire against Russia - we're putting Patriot missle batteries there next year.
If in the process we get the Russians to help stop Iran's nuke program - or at least stop helping Iran - that's a bonus.
The Polish government (not Lech Walesa) is satisfied with the Patriot missiles it's getting. The Czechs are fine with it. NATO approves. The Patriots work now, and the sea-based Aegis systems have a better test track record than the land-based alternative -- plus they can be moved around, and are less susceptible to the winds of politics. And word is that a land-based system may go into Turkey and Israel.
Before you go off half-cocked, and criticize a plan Brent Scowcroft has endorsed -- and one that was formulated by W's own SecDef -- maybe you should check your facts.
And a final point: the system Bush promised is vaporware - it DOESN'T EXIST! And there is plenty of reason to believe it still won't exist within the next decade - the technological challenges are immense.
Instead, we're putting in place a system that does exist and has been proven to work - against the realistic threat, not some hypothetical.
No radar. Russia loves it.
Way to upset a country that stood by us,it doesn't sound like Poland is "satisfied" with the Patriot missles alone judging by Prime Minister Donald Tusk refusing to take a call from Hillary on Wed. night.
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