Ivan we have never seen eye to eye on numerous issues and have traded verbal barbs but let me ask you a few things in all seriousness.We know for a fact that Iran will have nuclear weapons soon(russia is even helping them with the nuclear reactors) and a long range missile will be able to hit mainland europe within a few years. This puts NATO countries and US forces in the region at risk of nuclear blackmail or a first strike by a radical islamic terrorist supporting nation. Poland is the best strategic place geographically for interceptors if you look at a ballistic missile flight path to europe.Why does russia not want us to protect ourselves? We are not planning to attack russia. Stop being so paranoid. You are all pushing us to another cold war and possibly worse as putin continues to threaten. Do you seriously long for a day like this when the world as we know it would end? No one will win this.Watch this.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/503598/the_end/
Why does russia not want us to protect ourselves? We are not planning to attack russia. ==
Iran is just the pretension it doesn’t have no long range missiles and won’t have in near future. If you want to cover up Iran you should put the interceptors in Turkey or Georgia.
Putin continues to repeat that “those interceptors are for the fencing the Russian “retribution” answer”.
He states that NATO may attack Russian FIRST then try to defend herself againt the weaked russian answer with those interceptors. He states that 10 it is only for today and tomorrow it will 100 or more. If all infrastructure in place it will be doing easy.
For defense againt Russian first strike those even 100+ interceptors are useless. But if you prepare to the first strike on Russian nuclier forces then those interceptors will be handy to fend off the weakeed answer.
The total majority of Russians beleive Putin since he is the president of Russia and has in possesions the intelegence data to support his opinions.
Russia cann’t definely stop this development but she can prepare herself. It is not Cold war since Russia doesn’t want to dominate but she wants not to be blackmailed by NATO. “If you want peace then prepare to war” - old wisdom.