This article is not convincing unless of course one is committed to the contradictory notion there is no contradiction between NATO/US entrapment/encirclement of Russia and so-called "reset" of relations between the U.S and Russia. The only point I want to stress is there is no shred of evidence that Komorowski is anymore pro Russia than Kaczynski.

Seems the old Russian paranoia is still around.

Here is a well research piece with different point of view than ideas presented here by the author of this piece. Somehow we are not seeing the fruits of socalled the reset between the U.S and Russia. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20027

Hal And you do not see the old United States trick of saying something to the leaders of the ME, Latin America and Russia and then doing something completely different thing has went away? Do you really think the U.S has a track record when it comes to working according to international rules and in terms of mutually beneficial bilateral treaties? On the contrary, the Russian are restrained despite repeated deliberate provocations of the United States. Here is the latest response from the Russia’s President and note how he sidesteps the whole U.S Missile Shields in Poland. Unless we are missing something, the so-called U.S/Russian partnership is as ephemeral and the defective as the IPod and greasy and unhealthy as the burger the Russia’s President recently received world in U.S tour. http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/07/05/11472924.html

That´s another reason why Russia has to fulfill its contract and sell the S-300 system to Iran; at least that way it will be tested against American and Israeli missiles and aircraft, and if successful it will be as well known in the World media as the Patriot system during the Gulf War.

The Poles are finally coming to their senses. Being in a nuclear confrontation with Russia, makes no sense. They are both Slavic people and their similarities are far greater then their differences. Three cheers for Komorowski.

I am sure Russia can settle it's differences with Poland, East Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, etc over a bottle of vodka or two. Cold war occupation not a big deal Nostrovia !!!

I have a easy solution. Put base in all Southamerica socialist free countries, put bases in Cuba too and claimall these in ''defence'' of some central american country from narcos in colombia. Ahhhhh and not forgive to call northamerican paranoid if they fear of something.

Given the damage Hilary Clinton did to Russia-US relation during current visit to Georgia, I wonder if the author is going to re-assess his endless optimistic assertion of the direction the socalled the U.S-Russia alleged warming relations is taking. This is because it seem the U.S reset with Russia never got off the grounds. Poland’s foreign policy toward Russia is dictated by U.S geopolitics. We will note if this changes. The U.S wanted to nuke the Soviet Union when it thought it was potentially possible and it decides against it only because it was not militarily feasible. Hilary Clinton thinks she smells Russia’s eagerness for a reset with the U.S, which translated as indication of Russia’s strategic weakness and we see she is pushing the old and tired GWB era Russophobic agenda.

July 05, 2010, 20:13, Hal wrote > Seems the old Russian paranoia is still around. Only with some of the very "old guard". Medvedev is forward and modern thinking and is doing the right things for Russia. In the long term, USA and Russia will be the closest allies, if his agenda/objectives can be sustained.

GaryMax Now, Russia is close to 1500 years old and the U.S 200 years old. Why have they not become good friends in the past? No, I do not think the U.S and Russia will ever become “the best allies.” What is possible is that they may become pragmatic business partners. P/S. The more the U.S praised Medvedev, the more it looks bad for him at home. Obama is only few years younger Putin and Putin is few years older than Medvedev but Russia is not run by one man. So if you are looking for another Yeltsin in the figure of Medvedev, you are banking on the horse.

"Under shadow" grow only mushrooms...

PR101 "Why have they not become good friends in the past?" You might want to read "Distant Friends - "The United States and Russia, 1763-1867" by Norman E. Saul, if you can find a copy of it. He contends, "We began as friends. Then followed nearly a century of suspicion and hostility." Of course the hostility was after the 1916 Russian Revolution. His conclusion? That the early relationships--diplomatic, cultural, scientific, economic, and personal--between the two countries were more extensive than had been reported before, more important, and more congenial.