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| Nuclear Threats against Poland over Missile Defense |
| 2008-08-15 |
| The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia warns Poland that it may become a priority target for Russia in the event the USA deploys elements of its missile defense system on the territory of this East European nation. To put it in a nutshell, Russia may strike a nuclear blow on Poland, which is possible after the recent change of the Russian Federation defense doctrine. "The USA is busy with its own missile defense system; it does not intend to defend Poland at this point. Poland lays itself open to attack giving the USA a permission to deploy the system. The country may become an object of Russia's reaction. Such targets are destroyed in the first instance," Anatoly Nogovitsin, Russia's Deputy Chief of Staff said commenting the recent agreement regarding the deployment of the US missile defense system in Poland. Nogovitsin stated that Russia may use nuclear weapons in cases as stipulated by the defense doctrine. "It clearly states that we can use nuclear weapons against the countries possessing nuclear weapons, against allies of such countries, if they somehow support them, and against those countries, which deploy other countries' nuclear weapons on their territories. Poland is aware of it," the general said. This seems to be a weak spot for Russia, the perception that it's might could be sidesteped, however currently MD won't stop many missles with multiple war heads so why are the Russians so fearful of this? Maybe they are thinking down the line when we have thousands of anti-missle systems in place around it's borders while they can't stop ours from falling down on their heads. |
| Posted by:Pliny Sleash8027 |
| #7 Lest we fergit, COLD WAR > It has been said that the USSR did NOT fear the US-NATO asmuch it did anti-Soviet MAO-LED RED CHINA + NON-ALIGNED WORLD POWERS + SMALL STATES. Again my nose is twitching > IMO, its possib Russia may using mil aggression to disguise its LT fears as per its NATIONAL SURVIVAL agz [future]NUCLEAR ISLAMISM-TERROR + "LIVING SPACE"-AMBITIOUS CHINA. Russia may PDENIABLY? be trying to contain-isolate its own anti-US Ally NUCLEAR IRAN, etc. from CONTROLLING = EXPANDING INTO THE BLACK SEA-CASPIAN-BALKAN REGIONS, to include any threat by Nuclear Islamism agz historic Russ-ally Muslim TURKEY. BESIDES EXCLUSIVE CHIN DESIGNS PER SE VV RUSS FAR EAST, RUSS IS ALSO SEEING SIMIL EXCLUSIVE ISLAMIST THREATS AGZ CHINA + NORTH ASIA. IOW RUSS VIEW > ISLAMIST CONTROL OF CHINA/NORTH ASIA + CHIN NUKES + MASSIVE CHIN [Asian] POPULATION = NUCLEAR ISLAMIST ASIA??? Again, its possib Russia is "hedging", and may lastly also be covertly prepping for a future POST-WOT/RUSSIA day when it may need to formally integrate wid NON-MUSLIM/ISLAMIST NATO-EU AS TO ITS OWN SURVIVALIST INTERESTS??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-15 19:54 |
| #6 RUSSIA is facing potentially DANGEROUS + NEAR-TERM GEOPOL PROBS ON ITS BORDERS, i.e. NUCLEARIZING RADICAL ISLAMISM [States + Militants-Terror] in CENTRAL ASIA; + CHINESE AMBITIONS ON ITS FAR EAST [Urals - Kamchatka/Siberia]. E.g. CHINA > OFFICIO indic that CHINA's POPULATION IS ONLY 1.3 BILYUHN, WHICH IS APPROXI 1.3 BILYUHN LESS THAN WHAT MANY PERTS BELIEVE. The latter argue that China is wilfully underestim its TRUE POPULATION. Besides POPUL EXPANSION?, CHINA is also dealing wid parallel INTENSIFYING PAN-ENVIRON DESERTIFICATION. IOW, CHINA > MAY BY 2050 BECOM A GIANT, NUKE- ARMED, STARVING NORTH KOREA, NOT AN ANTI/POST-US SUPERPOWER COMPETITOR + SUCCESSOR AS DESIRED. Think 1960's STAR TREK > where CAPT KIRK is on an ELBOW-ROOM ONLY, CATASTROPH OVERCROWDED, CULTURE-FORBIDS-ANY-WAR ALIEN HUMANOID PLANET IN DIRE NEED OF NATURAL DISEASE TO REDUX ITS NUMBERS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-15 19:29 |
| #5 May want to hold off on 1st Armored's Fort Bliss redeployment. Poland and the Baltics could be a lot more interesting than El Paso. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-08-15 18:48 |
| #4 Because non-nuclear direct impact warheads are so dangers to a man walking his poodle in Leningrad. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-08-15 17:11 |
| #3 We are not responsible for the language in their defense doctrine. A nuclear launch, even an unsuccessful one, is outlined in OUR defense doctrine also. They are playing with fire now. This is how nuts like Kimmie and Dinnerjacket act right before they get a healthy dose of sanctions. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-15 12:46 |
| #2 It looks like Russia has its paranoid, expansionist, fascist mojo on. Not good |
| Posted by: Slats Glans2659 2008-08-15 12:46 |
| #1 Deep, deep paranoia. They assume we are the enemy. Which we aren't, but they do anything to gain some--it's so lonely without enemies... sigh While they are helping Iran. Nuts. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-08-15 12:25 |