Washington talking to Warsaw about possible U.S. missile base in Poland

CNEWS ^ | November 16, 2005 | ROBERT BURNS

[twinself]

ping!

[Joe Boucher]

Hey Russia, remember the cuban missle crises? Paybacks a mother.

[armydawg1]

All those years of abusing the Eastern Europeans, trampling on their rights, tanks in the streets, crushing freedom?

Poland rises again!

[Mister Da]

I'm not real happy about protecting Europe from anything anymore, though Poland is an exception to that.

Except Alaska, I haven't read about any other anti-missile missile(AMM) bases protecting the USA. Til these are built, or AMMs are put on submarines, we need to protect our country first.

Besides, the muzzies aren't gonna nuke an area they already control - france, germany, etc.

[Freelance Warrior]

Ok, we'll aim some nukes at Poland.

[twinself]

You are really stupid if you haven't done it yet.

[Freelance Warrior]

Aiming a nuke takes 40 minutes we have enough time yet.
Anyway why would a Middle East country will send a nuke through Poland? It's not the shortest way.

[twinself]

Anyway why would a Middle East country will send a nuke through Poland? It's not the shortest way.

Perhaps because that exercise is not related with a Middle Eastern country at all.

[Grzegorz 246]

This system will protect US, not Poland. There probably wouldn't be enough time to shoot down missiles launched from the middle east, which would be going to hit Europe. This is not against Russia either because the whole system will be able (maybe) to shoot down only a few missiles. Russians have thousands.

[Grzegorz 246]

I am generally against this system being deployed in Poland but that Russia wouldn't like It is one of few positive aspects in the whole affair.

[Freelance Warrior]

In this case a possible Middle East attacker would strike Poland first to hit the facility and would send a nuke to hit the USA secondly.

The time factor make such move look successful. And Poland doesn't benefit from this.

[Grzegorz 246]

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[Freelance Warrior]

Sorry, have I understand you correctly that the main Poland's goal of this possible move is to get Russia angry?

[Sender]

Twenty bucks says Russia will think any such base is against Russia, and will goose the arms race up again. Not that I'm against building the base, just an observation. It will definitely be received badly by the cold war dinosaurs.

[Sender]

I predict that the moment this base is confirmed, the Russians will demonstrate how easily they could pick off our carriers and stealth aircraft with their new toys. This could even revive the ultranationalist parades of military hardware through Red Square. I'm not sure such a base is worth all that.

[twinself]

See the problem is that the Cold War never really ended, and was just "frozen" for a short while during the nineties. US vs rest of the world rivalry (including Russia) will definitely deepen in the years to come. Russia makes no mistake which side Poland will be on in that race. Especially after Ukrainian elections, when Kremlin propagandists nominated Poland as their official "training bag".

[lizol]

I suppose you already have, some time ago.

[Freelance Warrior]

I can only speculate about this and you too.

[Freelance Warrior]

I'm becomimg more and more assured that nuclear weapons are absolutely necessary for Russia since the possible US attack is still an option.