[ClearCase_guy]

It’s sort of like a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis, with Barry having the role of Kruschev.

[SpinnerWebb]

I guess Obama isn't caving fast enough for them.

[beethovenfan]

The Russians are upset about DEFENSIVE weapons. That can only mean that they plan to use their OFFENSIVE weapons. Of course, Barry Noballs will cave.

[Pearls Before Swine]

A huge difference between this system and the Cuban missile crisis is that the anti-missile weapons are not nuclear.

[Andrei Bulba]

Just wondering, what chance is there Russia will launch WWIII over some defensive missiles in Europe?

Imho this is meant as clumsy cover for Obama, to justify his “flexibility”.

[Sequoyah101]

I think it has been said but how do you threaten anyone with defensive weapons?

[tom h]

"Russia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its controversial plan to build a missile shield. "

Awww ... but I thought that Hillary Clinton "reset" relations with the Russians in 2009, and that the Russians were now to be trusted, and that pink ponies with wings could fly ...

[humming Kumbayah to myself now as I dream of world peace and whirled peas].

[tom h]

The Russkies have seen how well the Arrow system works in Israel and they are terrified to think that their offensive capability might be neutralized.

[BenLurkin]

It's almost as if the Russians see Obama as being weak.

Very weak.

[Dead Corpse]

Didn't we once offer them access to the same technology to help set up their own missile shield? I thought I remember that as something from the Reagan era...

I could be mis-remembering though...