Thursday
21 august 2008
20:01
“Why are you keeping mum?” – Leonid Kravchuk asks Pres YushchenkoUS missile shield in Poland is really bad news for Russia, Taras Voznyak opines
The deployment of a US anti-missile defense system in Poland is West’s response to the “loose cannon” Russian regime. It will be a hefty deterrent for Russia, as the Kremlyn has no technical muscle to offer an adequate response, political expert and editor of The “I” independent journal Taras Voznyak told ZIK Aug. 21.The US missile shield is aimed to protect NATO countries, not Ukraine, but the presence of interceptor rockets near the Ukrainian border might cool Russia a little if it acts unpredictably and plays loose again with international agreements.
Russia should heed the shield because this country has the habit to violate international agreements. The US interceptor missiles are deployed not in Southern Poland which is close to Ukraine, but in the north of the country near the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad which is located virtually in the heart of Europe.
Russia may try to retaliate, Voznyak assumes, but Russia is not the Soviet Union and has no technical ability for an adequate response to the US and NATO. The Russian response can hardly pose a threat to NATO, he concludes.
Comment by ZIK
Aug, 20, Poland and the United States have signed an agreement to deploy the US anti-missile defense system in the country, The Ukrayinska Pravda reported.
Earlier, Russian officials warned that in case the agreement was signed between the US and Poland, Russia would “give an adequate response.”
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It's true, the Russians are so poor in modern technical terms that they don't have any response to this system. But why should they need one? it's a defensive, kinetic energy anti-missile weapon, can't do any harm to Unholy Mother Russia at all.
God, what a bunch of thuggish school bullies the Russians are! The product of a country with very low culture and even less morality. Pagans, the lot of them.