Posted on 08/16/2008 9:12:30 AM PDT by bereanway
M oscows blitzkrieg in Georgia is more than a military campaign. It is designed to empower Russias diplomatic strategy, which seeks to make the European Union (EU) the Wests chief representative in future negotiations with Russia. Quite naturally the Kremlin wants to escape the logic of U.S. and NATO policy, which is to contain Russia within her national borders. Meanwhile, the European Union is an entirely different animal: toothless, utopian and ready to please.
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Berean is right on with his post. The Russian could overwhelm that BMD with little effort with 4-5 MIRVs.
It is really a system to prevent a rogue country like Iran from launch or perhaps even an accidental launching. Beyond that the radar system would give early alerts that would benefit all of Europe.
Can we put it past the Russians to instigate an Iranian launch? Who knows? Just speculation but the do enjoy their proxy wars. Not probable but who is to say that Putin won’t be out empired by another follower.
They Russians claim that the BMD is the big deal, but the mutual defense agreement which basically gaurantees 2 things:
1. A Russian attack on Poland is an attack on the US, this is beyond NATOs ability to act swiftly.
2. Poland will vie with the British in the future as one of our best allies, surpassing Old Leftist Europe, and will be with us for the next 50 years fighting the WOT.
This is what is truely in the craw of the Russians now. They thought they out maneuvered us but they miscalculated in a big way. That Polish move will have people grumbling to contest Medvedev in Russia, something Putin will not be happy about.
Correction: That it is NOT necessarily a reference to the upcoming election.
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