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Originally Posted by Skybird
Nuclear-capable Iskander missiles stationed in Kaliningrad - this does not happen every day. Range is sufficient to reach Berlin, and further.
From a strategic POV, that enclave is a NATO nightmare. They can turn the whole air space in the Baltic region and Eastenrn Europe into an aerial access-denial zone, extended into Germany. High time that NATO starts to take this new cold war serious.
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Dowly was referring to my comment on the Su-27 entering Finnish airspace.
The Iskanders are upping the ante though, but we've been expecting them for a while now, the AEGIS BMD will be going into Poland around 2018, and the missile radars will be set up around that time too.
Of course, NATO would love to start taking this new Cold War serious, but every time they try they get accused of being too aggressive towards Russia, or of over-reacting...or the forces of the nations that make up NATO get deployed fighting terrorists in the Middle East.
Can't win.
