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US stations patriot missiles, soldiers in Poland
Published: 27 May, 2010, 03:17
Edited: 26 June, 2010, 07:07
Poland, Morag : US soldiers stand on May 26, 2010 in front of a Patriot missile battery at an army base in the northern Polish town of Morag.(AFP Photo / Wojtek adwanski)
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The United States has opted to station more than 100 American soldiers and a battery of US Patriot missiles in Poland approximately 60 kilometers from the Russian border.
Poland has said the Morag base location was selected because it met certain infrastructure needs.
“This is a big problem, because this is mainly a symbolic act and you don’t put things like that right on the border with Russia,” said Ivan Eland, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute.
Eland said the move is likely designed to reassure Poland of US support after the Obama administration backtracked on a missile defense structure the Bush White House had planned for Poland and the Czech Republic.
“It is mainly symbolism, it’s only one battery of Patriots,” said Eland.
Russia has no reason to be concerned, as the development is not threading. It represents NATO’s will to push forward and is mainly political in nature.
“We [US and Russia] are experiencing improved relations. We just had an agreement on Iranian sanctions, the US will pull some sanctions they had on Russian companies,” said Eland.
Eland believes that Russia-Poland relations, which had been improving recently, are likely to be hindered by this development, due to Poland’s unwillingness to relocate the missiles to another base further from the border.
27.05.2010, 02:38
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No Larry most wouldn`t ;D - most ironic is that majority of Poles are anti-american, be we know that from both evils American is not as bad as Russian one (which we know better). Right now this could change from the recent realtions, and the disonance between voters and current ruling party will grow. Right now with the exception of extreme right-wing most politicians agree to revitalize realtions with Russia. USA is weakening down to the level they can`t impose their stance on any non-banana republic country, and that is a fact. In 90s USA could everything they wanted in whole sub-continents area - now Obama has difficulty to deal with micro-entities like North Korea About S-300 - Poland wouldn`t take Patriot batteries if Russia would sold S-300 batteries to Poland in 2002 - when we politely asked for them. There are no other systems with similar capabilities (chinese HQ and french Aster were not available at that time). So
Perhaps it is time for Putin to have Russia place no less than thirty (30) nuclear missiles on their side of the border? I would.