Further Millitary Action Possible?
 

Is possible military action possible by Russia in response to the USA building a missile defense network in Poland? I don't think this artical tells enough about the "threat" by Russia, has anyone heard anything new?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/...issile_defense

""In this case Russia will be forced to react, and not only through diplomatic" channels, it said without elaborating." That is quoted from Fox News

As I said, we are closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than at any other point in history. It is coming. I do suspect Russia will launch some day preemptively.

Time to buy more ammo. Time to move away from possible targets. Its coming.

-S

Great, 'cause I hate long waits. Time to run up the credit card.:lol:

You'll be fine in Idaho. Who would want to nuke a potato field???!!! :D :p

-S

The corn lobby!:hmm: Big corn, haliburton,chenyrumsfeldbushexxonshell, you now the usual.:rotfl:

Where have they claimed the Patriots are for Iranian missiles?
Maybe their fears of Russia are justfied as Russian threatened to nuke Poland, Poles havent made such threats, Russia is digging a hole it cant get out of.

Just caught that myself - they hadn't said this one. On the other hand, Patriot is part of the missile defense, but clearly the capabilities of the system is not going to be useful against the unlikely, hypothetical missile from Iran. So, really, who's left?

According to the article, Russia mumbled something about "not only through diplomatic channels", and it became nukes?

Besides, targeting is just that ... targeting. Since you clearly are not an ally, Poland should have expected that Russia will add Polish targets to their to-nuke-in-war list. I frankly don't even see the provocation or meanness in all this - it is just what you expect when you suck up to another Big Brother.

In the unlikely event the Russians do take "military action" against those bases, it'll probably be either a commando or a low-level air raid that aims to make the destruction a fait accompli, similar to the Israelis and the Iraqi reactor in '81 or so.

As for Rice, I just want to howl a bit:
"Missile defense, of course, is aimed at no one,"

Any defense or offense is always aimed at someone. Otherwise you should have saved the money to build a school.

The idea that a defensive system cannot pose a danger to anybody was refuted by the United States in the 90s, when they stopped Cyprus from installing S-300 SAMs.

"It is in our defense that we do this."

Cool. Defense against what? Iran? Then what are these Patriots? Russia. Now at least this is an honest answer...

And i thought i was seeing visions when your post had disappeared.:rotfl:

This is where that firebug on the movie "The Stand" starts to chant about "The Big Fire....":D

Come on folks. Russia's not going to nuke anybody. Not Poland, not the Ukraine, not Western Europe. It's all talk. They can't. They will gain nothing but their own total and complete annihilation. Doesn't sound like a move worthy of their consideration. Looking seriously at it, I'm sure they're miffed at the missile shield in Poland. But they certainly have other options than nuclear warfare. It's worthy to note that an empty nuclear warfare threat will get them the least results to satisfy their concerns over the shield. Mr. Putin needs to realize that.

According to a polish chap on R4 yesterday, russia has been invited to inspect all of the missile sites to ensure nothing untoward is being done, on an ongoing basis.
Some russian statements mentioned targeting these proposed sited with nuclear missiles. :roll:

As the man said, this in no way shows a polish intent to go to war, indeed polish history is full of invaders, something quoted by a russian source as the reason they (russia) are a bit huffy about the whole missile defence thing... 'cause russia is sooo besieged and have never aggressively annexed land and assets belonging for sovereign nations, oh no, not us... Using that logic you might expect the poles to be more like the russians claim to be. :lol:

Also mentioned by the polish guy was how the mask of russian diplomacy and 'partner states' is beginning to slip, revealing good old soviet suspicion and oppression.

More hot air and bombast as usual.

Does Poland understand that even a completely defensive system can be considered a provocation? Does the United States remember it had decided such at least once?

As long as they don't launch them just for this, I don't blame them one little bit.

Fake smile or real smile, when you keep kicking someone who's smiling, don't blame him for dropping it.

Provocation to whom, exactly? Unless russia has unsavoury designs on foreign nations, why does it have to be concerned about poland? (we all know polands propensity for starting wars of aggression and conquest hehe)

Russia doesn't do itself any favours with its 'grumpy soviet bear' attitude and veiled threats against supposed allies.
On a personal note, I wouldn't swallow such a bleeding heart point of view from my own government, and especially not from a country with a history of conquest and subjugation and brutality like russias. Murdering dissidents in foreign countries and point blank refusing to hand over the prime suspects to the appropriate authorities in that country just goes to show that the 'means and architecture' of oppression are still in attendance, even if they are not publicly acknowleged.

Small wonder then that many nations view the former soviet union with fear and distrust, even today when we're all meant to be 'best friends' :roll:

Perhaps so, but when that someone has a reputation as a totalitarian nut-job which precedes them through the ages, you'd expect such a 'reformed character' to show a little understanding and willingness to go a little bit further to demonstrate their good intent, instead of falling back into the old ways and habits of oppression and warmongering rhetoric.

Not trying to defend Russia's threats, but it does makes some sense, if you look at it from a Russian point of view.

Base line is this: The Missile defense system basically nullifies the MAD, Mutual Agreed Destruction, that was the status quo during the cold war. Why? Because it leaves Russia and its allies (if there are some) defenseless against first strikes, and decreases their ability to strike back, if an attack should ever come out of the west. And that is, imho what all this noise is about. They see the west developing technology that would make it possible to strike with impunity.

The 10-15 missiles can hardly stop russians from lauching in masse, they are free to develop their own.
I think they should invest heavily on these and some kind of Star Wars project also, as much as they can..:rotfl: