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U.S.-Russian Tensions Rise Over Missile Shield Plan

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Posted on Jul 8, 2008
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Forging an agreement with the Czech Republic to host the radar for the United States’ planned missile shield project represents, according to Condoleezza Rice, a way of making the missile defense system “transparent to the Russians.” Officials in Moscow, however, are inclined to take this latest move as a hostile gesture that could provoke military retaliation.


Times Online:

Moscow argues that the missile shield would severely undermine the balance of European security and regards the proposed missile shield based in two former Communist countries as a hostile move.

“We will be forced to react not with diplomatic, but with military-technical methods,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The ministry did not detail what its response might entail.

Dr Rice, the US Secretary of State, hailed the agreement as a step forward for international security.

After 14 months of negotiations, the US is struggling to clinch agreement with its other proposed partner - Poland - where it hopes to locate the interceptor missiles designed to shoot down any incoming rockets.

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By Fadel Abdallah, July 9 at 8:11 am #

Though I am a pacifist and nothing will make me happier and more secure than that all sane nations would mutually dismantle their military-industrial complexes of war-mongering, I do look, with great nostalgic feelings, to the era of cold-war!

If it’s inevitable for humanity to live with wars, I’d rather have it the cold-war of old, rather than the real wars and destruction heaped upon us after the end of the cold-war.

At least, during the cold-war, there were two evil empires keeping each other at bay, and mostly, this resulted in small nations and countries living in relative peace and security.

Therefore, as it stands now, I have two dreams: One, that nations of the world would come to their senses and demand their military-industrial complexes and entities to be unilaterally dismantled! Two, that if this first dream is not possible to achieve, the cold-war between two, three or four so-called superpowers would come back to keep these powers busy with each others, while small countries and nations are left in relative peace and security!

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By Blackspeare, July 9 at 7:20 am #

This is nothing more than job security for the military-industrial complex with Rice acting as the front.  Also, her expertise is in Soviet/Russian relations and keeping the Russians on edge keeps her services needed well into the future.

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By G.Anderson, July 9 at 5:23 am #

We are going to be lucky if Bush doesn’t succeed in killing us all in a Nuclear War.

He is an idiot, and so is Rice. Everything he touches turns to into a disaster.

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By PatrickHenry, July 8 at 2:23 pm #

Time is short for Bush and he is dead set on pissing off that part of the world, for whatever reason.

It is a hostile and provocative act by elements within the American government and is against the majority of Americans wishes.

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