Posted on 01/28/2009 12:55:57 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Russia has dropped plans to install missiles near Poland after the Obama administration signalled a change in US attitude to the region, a Moscow military official has reportedly said.
The official suggested that Mr Obama's White House had made clear it would not prioritise executing the Bush administration's plan to install a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.
An unnamed official in the Russian military's general staff said: "The implementation of these plans has been halted in connection with the fact that the new US administration is not rushing through plans to deploy" elements of its missile defence shield in eastern Europe, according to the Interfax news agency.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, had warned that the US shield - which the Bush White House said was necessary to defend against potential attacks from the Middle East - would be interpreted by Moscow as a direct provocation.
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YIKES
Translation: the price of oil dropped, and we [Russia] can’t afford to do that right now.
Sounds like ‘we can’t afford and don’t need it with clown in power’. The Russian economy is tracking downward steadily. They don’t have to be stronger when their opposition is weaker.
I say BS. They have likely run into other problems with deployment.
In other words they have scrapped it without saying so.
COMMODITY FUTURES
VALUE CHANGE % CHANGE
Oil 41.96 0.38 +0.91
Gold 886.20 -13.30 -1.48
Natural Gas 4.48 -0.03 -0.60
They will get it in place and then it will be too late for us to implement ours. Present Obama doesn't like stuff that defends freedom anyway, NP.
And next when will we see this reported in the MSM?
Yeah I know. NEVER
Another thing to remember is that there is a REASON that they didn’t want eastern Europe to be able to defend itself from
intimidation and threat of the use of nuclear missiles
from Russia.
That reason is that Russia intends to use
intimidation and threat of the use of nuclear missiles
against Eastern Europe.
Hey, why not just have Pres Obama preside over the revival meeting of the Warsaw Pact...
Keep on trucklin’, Obama.
check out the new Russia mx missile it can defeated U.S ‘
Foreign agitproppers should learn better English before posting.
Yep, $100 off the price at the planned annoucement.
BTW, oil will be at $75 in about 6 months.
They don’t have to be stronger when their opposition is weaker.
Obama backed down, so they don’t need them. America should NEVER back down, and Obama does it as one of his First Acts.
Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Threat Raised in US Congress!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mVKR68nDiw
Russia has found it far cheaper to threaten to cut off natural gas to the Europeans than to deploy missiles. Besides, their military isn’t in such great shape. A Russian-speaking friend just got back on Sunday from Moscow and things aren’t so rosey there. Discipline in the military isn’t what it used to be and the death of several prominent human rights activists and anti-corruption journalists has people wondering about the future.
His wife and two daughters went back for three months early last year but couldn’t take the lack of security and corruption that was rampant in Moscow. His daughters were scared of almost all the men there because they would just stare at the girls (cute blue-eyed blonde 11 year-old twins). Gee, these guys sound like our own “disadvantaged yutes.” The mentality of these predators seems to be reflected in their foreign policy.
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