[AntEater]

1st of all, perspective:
Iskander (SS-26) is not the "OMFG teh end of teh world nuke" missile.
It is a conventional short range theater ballistic missile, basically the grandson of the Scud.
A nuke warhead is optional, but currently all Iskanders are conventional.
The US Army has a similar weapon, the MGM-140 ATACMs, which was liberally used in Iraq 2003.
These weapons have a small CEP and could take out both the Silos and the Radar with conventional warheads.
So basically, Russia is moving around 30-60 2000 pound unitary or cluster bombs to Kaliningrad. The only difference between these and air dropped bombs is that their carrier system can't be shot down that easily.
The Iskander is maybe the best theater ballistic missile in its class in the world, but it is currently neither a nuclear nor a long ranged missile system.
Iskander could be turned into something like the SS-20, but not on the field.
Missiles of such range, like Tochka, have always been stationed in Kaliningrad, only those have a much larger CEP.
Iskander was originally developed as a division level artillery missile, same as Scud or Tochka.
Now they're deployed in seperate battalions largely because there are not enough of them to equip all russian divisions and also they make a nice boogeyrocket. Iskander is a propaganda ploy and a remarkable archievement in rocket science in one....

Secondly, Russia is announcing that it would do that if negotiations over the BMD system fail.
They're not implementing this move right now. Sometimes I feel people in the media actually want war.

And don't get me started with the Poles. Actually the poles I know are quite OK but the country's Government and Media are certainly getting on my nerves with their eternal living in the past.
I love history but for the poles it seems mostly a tool for nationalism, not to mention their rather "creative" approach to it, like mostly forgetting to mention they did not beat the Turks all by themselves at Vienna or that their army failed to take the Marienburg after Grunwald.
Also their eternal hatred for Germans and Russians, their eternal sabotage of the EU, their constant biting the hand that feeds them.
It was basically us who helped them get back on their feet after 1991, and what did we get for it? Constant spitting in the face.
We gave them our remaining MiG-29s plus a hundred Leopard 2s for 1 Euro the same year Poland elected a government campaigning on racial hatred against Germans.
So, we had wars in the past, so what? France regularly turned western Germany into a desert every 20 years until 1815 (and we invaded them three times more recently) and we still get along today, as we do with Belgium and the Netherlands.


Actually all of eastern europe is getting on my nerves with their moronic ultranationalism.
Who cares if the newly independend republic of ****holistan has a 10.000 year old unique culture which makes them better than their hated neighbours in Molvania?
This place allready got us one world war for sure, and the second one had its roots there as well.