Posted on 02/27/2010 7:26:00 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The first batch of United States Patriot missiles will be deployed in Poland in April, defence ministry spokesman Janusz Sejmej said Saturday, AFP reported. US troops tasked with operating the missiles will arrive at the same time, the PAP news agency quoted Sejmej as saying. The surface-to-air missiles are to be deployed in northern Poland some 60 kilometres (35 miles) from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Poland's Defence Minister Bogdan Klich said last month that the choice of the site close to Kaliningrad had "no political or strategic meaning -- its good infrastructure is the only reason." Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Friday ratified an agreement on the future status of US troops in Poland, opening the way for the missile deployment. President Barack Obama in September scrapped a plan agreed in 2008 to install a controversial anti-missile shield system in Poland and the Czech Republic that had enraged Russia.
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Ping.
Spring, and love is in the air....
I hate to say it, but I wonder if the US under Obambi will be as useless an ally as the French were during WWII
Russia isn’t going to like this, and will probably tell us to take a hike to the Space Station.
Its the Poles who want this not the Russians.
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