US to deploy Patriot missiles to Poland

US to deploy Patriot missiles to Poland
The US will deploy a Patriot missile battery in Poland to bolster its defences against possible threats by Russia.

Speaking after a meeting with the US secretary of state Hilary Clinton in Washington, Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, said that America would place the missiles in line with an agreement penned between the two nations last summer, adding that the deployment would be "initially as temporary measure and later on a permanent basis".

The deployment of the long-range Patriot missiles will go ahead irrespective of whether or not the Obama administration pushes ahead with an anti-missile system, which Poland agreed to host in the summer after Russia's invasion of Georgia despite vehement opposition from Moscow.

The decision should help to allay Polish fears that Moscow might regard Washington's prevarication over the missile shield as a tacit acceptance that Central Europe is still part of Russia's sphere of influence.

Concern has mounted in Warsaw that American backtracking over the missile shield might bolster Russian attempts to interfere in a part of the world it once controlled, while at the same time exposing Poland to some form of retribution from a Kremlin angry with Polish willingness to host the missile shield.

Poland hopes that the Patriot battery, which will involve the first deployment of foreign troops on Polish soil since the end of the Cold War, should be operative by 2012.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/4838465/US-to- deploy-Patriot-missiles-to-Poland.html

The US will deploy a Patriot missile battery in Poland to bolster its defences against possible threats by Russia.

this will backfire on PL..

Exactly, what utter garbage!! Russia's invasion of Georgia? Excuse me, that was a set-up and Saakashvili attacked first. He badly miscalculated and this has been acknowledged by many commentators.

Sorry Sokrates, I find many Poles to be biased on this issue. I liked watching the Georgian national team when they had super football players like Kinkladze, Kaladze and Ketsbaia, to name but 3. I also like some Russian things. I'm neutral.

Pretext? No, they acted and they left

The world was caught in its own opportunistic lie. No sarcasm there, sorry.

Insult Two: The government of Kyrgyzstan is closing the U.S. air base on its soil. That air base supplies NATO forces in Afghanistan. Again, this is huge.

The reason the base is being closed is because Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin doesn't like America assisting nations like Poland and Ukraine in their defense strategies. So Mr. Putin, whom the Kyrgyzstan government fears, has succeeded in hurting NATO's war against the Taliban. Nice.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/26/testing-obama/

This is likely just a stepped down ploy by Obama as an alternative to the missile shield program he is against.

True... One battery, what a joke.

Poland Looks Beyond U.S. Missile-Defense Shield, Sikorski Says

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said his country is most interested in U.S. pledges in the agreement he signed last year in the face of Russian opposition, including an American garrison with Patriot interceptor missiles. The two sides also agreed to act jointly on military and non-military threats.

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Obama is an anti-military Leftist, determined to undo things his predecessors did in this area and is already making noises about becoming friendly -“reestablishing relations”- with Iran and Russia …at the expense of our friends who count on our protection…

I do not believe this is part of a larger effort. I suspect this may prove to be the entire effort.

reestablishing relations”- with Iran

and Russia …

…at the expense of our friends who count on our protection…

The missile shield was a provocative measure and is really not needed.

there's advisors and people behind the face who make the decisions

The missile shield was a provocative measure and is really not needed.

Yes. But their job is to advise and decide with respect to their boss’s agenda on a matter. Different agenda, different advice and decisions. And he still gets the final say.

I didn't say it wasn't a signal, I believe that it is. Provocative in the sense that it was pushed through despite the Russians seeing it as being provocative.

Provocative in the sense that it was pushed through despite the Russians seeing it as being provocative.

This wasn't really altruistically done in the name of the Polish interest

was to further America's strategic stronghold in global expansion and also to get an important foothold under, guess what, a pretext.

It'd've been interesting to see if you'd've still 'LOL'd' if they had actually set the missiles in Kalingrad.

Russians use terms like provocation like a...

However it was in the Polish interest

This is Kaczyński-style thinking.

Let's have a dig at Russia and open old wounds that have been healing.

Another point, where was Poland's individual initiative in implementing plans for its own security? Do you really need America to be the big brother for you?

I suspect as a result many nations have come to rely on America to provide such things for them that they themselves could do if they wanted to undertake such an initiative. After all, why take on such expense if someone is offering to do it for you?

Often politics are a reflection of common social interaction, just on a grander, international scale.

I ask again, Sokrates. Where is the perceived threat? Who are you protecting yourselves against with this shield? All I've seen in your last few posts has been talk of Russo-Polish relations.

the U.S. the cops