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Title: Missile Defense: Washington and Poland just moved the World closer to War
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URL Source: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9836
Published: Aug 15, 2008
Author: William Engdahl
Post Date: 2008-08-17 14:15:42 by christine
Keywords: None
Views: 110
Comments: 5

The signing on August 14 of an agreement between the governments of the United States and Poland to deploy on Polish soil US ‘interceptor missiles’ is the most dangerous move towards nuclear war the world has seen since the 1962 Cuba Missile crisis. Far from a defensive move to protect European NATO states from a Russian nuclear attack, as military strategists have pointed out, the US missiles in Poland pose a total existential threat to the future existence of the Russian nation. The Russian Government has repeatedly warned of this since US plans were first unveiled in early 2007. Now, despite repeated diplomatic attempts by Russia to come to an agreement with Washington, the Bush Administration, in the wake of a humiliating US defeat in Georgia, has pressured the Government of Poland to finally sign the pact. The consequences could be unthinkable for Europe and the planet.

The preliminary deal to place elements of the US global missile defense shield was signed by Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer and US chief negotiator John Rood on August 14. Under the terms, Washington plans to place 10 interceptor missiles in Poland coupled with a radar system in the Czech Republic, which it ludicrously claims are intended to counter possible attacks from what it calls "rogue states," including Iran.

To get the agreement Washington agreed to reinforce Poland's air defenses. The deal is still to be approved by the two countries' governments and Poland's parliament. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in televised remarks that "the events in the Caucasus show clearly that such security guarantees are indispensable." The US-Polish missile talks had been dragging for months before recent hostilities in Georgia.

The Bush White House Press spoksperson, Dona Perino stated, officially, "We believe that missile defense is a substantial contribution to NATO's collective security." Officials say the interceptor base in Poland will be opened by 2012. The Czech Republic signed a deal to host a US radar on July 8.

The signing now insures an escalation of tensions between Russia and NATO and a new Cold War arms race in full force. It is important for readers to understand, as I detail painstakingly in my book, to be released this autumn, Full Spectrum Dominance: The National Security State and the Spread of Democracy, the ability of one of two opposing sides to put anti-missile missiles to within 90 miles of the territory of the other in even a primitive first-generation anti-missile missile array gives that side virtual victory in a nuclear balance of power and forces the other to consider unconditional surrender or to pre-emptively react by launching its nuclear strike before 2012. Senior Russian lawmakers said on Friday the agreement would damage security in Europe, and reiterated that Russia would now have to take steps to ensure its security.

Andrei Klimov, deputy head of the Russian State Duma's international affairs committee, said the deal was designed to demonstrate Warsaw's "loyalty to the US and receive material benefits. For the Americans, it is an opportunity to expand its military presence across the world, including closer to Russia. For NATO, this is an additional risk...many NATO countries are unhappy with this, including the Germans and the French."

Klimov called the agreement "a step back" toward the Cold War.

Russian response

The US plans to deploy a radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in northern Poland as part of a US-controlled missile shield for Europe and North America, has been officially sold under the ludicrous argument that it is against possible attacks from "rogue states," including Iran. Last Spring then Russian President Vladimir Putin exposed the shallowness of the US propaganda line by offering a startled President Bush that Russia would offer the US use of Russian leased radar facilities in Azerbaijan on the Iran border to far better monitor Iran missile launches. The Bush Administration simply ignored the offer, exposing that their real target is Russia not "rogue states like Iran." Russia rightly views deployment of the US missile shield as a threat to its national security.

The latest Polish agreement advances a Russian response.

Russian officials earlier said Moscow could deploy its Iskander tactical missiles and strategic bombers in Belarus and Russia's westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad if Washington succeeded in its missile shield plans in Europe. Moscow also warned it could target its missiles on Poland.

Russia is also discussing to put in place an orbital ballistic missile system in response to US missile defense plans for Central Europe, according to a senior Russian military expert.

"A program could be implemented to create orbital ballistic missiles capable of reaching US territory via the South Pole, skirting US air defense bases," said Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin, former chief of staff of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, now vice president of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement Studies.

Previously as part of the post Cold War agreements with the US, agreements which have been ´significantly ignored by Washington as it pushed the borders of NATO ever closer to Moscow’s doorstep, the Soviet Union had abandoned such missiles in accordance with the START I Treaty.

Obama backs missile defense too

The deal would further divide European countries into what Barack Obama’s foreign policy adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski calls openly, US "vassals" and those pursuing more independent policies.

Any illusions that a Democratic Obama Presidency would mean a rollback of such provocative NATO and US military moves of recent years should be dismissed as dangerous wishful thinking. Obama’s foreign policy team in addition to father Zbigniew Brzezinski, includes Brzezinski’s son, Ian Brzezinski, current US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs. Ian Brzezinski is a devout backer of US missile defense policy, as well as Kosovo independence and NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia.

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#1. To: christine (#0)

And in other news today - debka reports that "Russia considers nuclear missiles for Syria, Mediterranean, Baltic"

No worries...

Anyone know when the new season of American Idol and Dancing with the Stars begins?

scrapper2  posted on  2008-08-17   14:26:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: scrapper2 (#1)

Anyone know when the new season of American Idol and Dancing with the Stars begins?

Really. All this newsy stuff really pisses me off. Those smarty-pants types that are always reading and thinking & stuff should be in jail.

Esso  posted on  2008-08-17   14:42:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#0)

All C.I.A. all the time. Vote your hearts out, it means nothing.

"Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States." "Mr. Chairman, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here that the United States was to be lowered to the position of a coolie country. . and was to supply financial power to an international superstate -- a superstate controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the World for their own pleasure."

noone222  posted on  2008-08-17   15:07:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Esso (#2)

Really. All this newsy stuff really pisses me off. Those smarty-pants types that are always reading and thinking & stuff should be in jail.

You da' man, brother.

I only trust wrastling watchin', hootch drinkin', pork rind eatin' peeples like myself. You see what I'm sayin? Them's what 'merika needs in the Oval Office, congress, too.

Whuch you say, brother? I can't hear yah too clear. No kiddin'. Gosh darn it - I musta took a long nap. You sayin' we ready got dem peeples in eeelected office???? No wonder 'merika is doin' so gosh darn good.

So when is a new season of 'merikan Idol startin?

scrapper2  posted on  2008-08-17   15:12:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: christine (#0)

This was 1914, nearly 100 years ago. Only the names have changed. The quest is the same, OIL.......Persia (Iran).

Below is overview of situation in 1914...

"Germany went into World War I planning to quickly defeat France through its long-anticipated Schlieffen Plan, finishing off Russia at its leisure. This would give the Germans, with assistance from the Ottoman Empire, access to oil in Persia, a country under Russia’s economic dominance. Coupled with the raw materials of central and eastern Europe and German financial and management abilities, "Persian oil would be the final necessary addition for an empire under German dominance stretching from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf". When Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Germany’s ally Austria-Hungary, was assassinated in June 1914, a chain of events was set into motion that brought the world into war

Cynicom  posted on  2008-08-17   15:59:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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