Speaking today in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns a planned May summit in Chicago was “probably” going to be cancelled by the alliance.
Rasmussen demanded that Russia immediately accept NATO’s missile defense system, installed largely along the frontier with Russia, though he conceded that there was no real progress toward that end.
Russia initially offered a deal on the missile defense system if it would be jointly operated, saying it was concerned that the NATO system was targeted at them. NATO, for its part, insists the shield targets Iran, even though much of it is outside of the theoretical range of even Iran’s best missiles.
Rasmussen said NATO would keep the “option” of holding the scheduled Chicago summit open, but that it would almost certainly not happen if the Russian government did not agree to the missile defense shield.
NATO's reason for being ended 20 years ago when the USSR collapsed. Since then, NATO has been steadily encircling Russia with bases in former Soviet republics, in Poland, Czech Republic, etc. Russia should agree to a missile defense system–a Russian one.
The Missile Shield has nothing to do with Iran. Europeans may be stupid but the Russians aren´t. The Russian NATO-Ambassador went to Washington and asked: "If people from Mars had disarmed Iran completely, would you still deploy the missiles ? And they answered: Yes, that will be made as decided. Der Spiegel 49/2011. Missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-wrote: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." This leads to Launch On Warning and suicide by mistake.
The World´s No 1 problem is that the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming first strike capability. Missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-outlined this in The Counterforce Syndrome, First Strike! The Pentagon´s Strategy For Nuclear War and Nuclear Empire (ch. 9 on anti-submarine warfare) and got the 3rd ML King Award for telling it as it is. The US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously according to Bob Aldridge. The warheads on Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 are designed to minimize nuclear winter effects if used against missile silos according to Professor Paul Rogers. Dr. Bob Bowman, Chief DOD "Star Wars" Program: Missile defense is the missing link to first strike. The Russian NATO-Ambassador was told in Washington that the missiles in the three countries would be deployed even if people from Mars had disarmed Iran completely. Der Spiegel 49/2011. That leads to Launch On Warning and danger of Accidental Nuclear War. For that reason General Harbottle stated on public radio: "They are bloody fools in the Pentagon."
All you have to do is look at a globe to see how nonsensical these "anti-missle" bases are.
If they are to defend against Iranian missles, why in the hell are the bases way up along the Polish-Russian border? Why wouldn't the bases form some sort of ring around Iran if that's who they're protecting against?
Secondly, why is the US the country busily building and lobbying for these bases? The alleged Iranian missles aren't threatening the US at all! If Europe feels threatened by Iran then why doesn't Europe build the bases and the US butt out?
The answer is twofold:
1) The US's goal is to dominate the entire world. These bases are just one little building block in that process.
2) A specific US goal is to encircle Russia and China with bases and missles so they (Russia & China) can never threaten peoples outside their borders.
The US seems to miss the point that it is the US, through its hegomonic activities, that is the primary impediment to world peace, and the primary cause of terrorism and unrest around the globe.
Well said.
Another point:
If Iran wanted to launch missles against somebody, Poland, Czeck Republic, Slovakia, and Romania would be the least likely targets. It is not those countries that are threatening Iran!
In the unlikely event that Iran attacked anyone, it would be against Israel, Saudi Arabia or one of the Gulf states. Those are the countries, with the connivance of the US, that are threatening to attack Iran, not eastern Europe.
POWER … !!! Power … !!! power ..!! That is what this is…. The sacrifice of EVERYTHING… for raw uncontestable Power..!!
The madman at the Satin inspired building are werking their Penta-plans….. Maybe the best answer would to build an automatic system to take out the antis with launch on ANY, even remote threat….. Using cruise missiles with blockbuster thermos…. Russia has already said that is the current plan… Who would want to be anywhere near the antimissile site…???
Foggy blathering to an empty room again
Everyday, the U.S. government and its paid killers in the military increase their belligerence toward other countries, putting the world and ALL Americans in danger of violent blowback! I wish D.C. would just sink back into the swamp it was built on!
The Cuban Missile Crisis was about the US placing nuclear missiles on the Turkish/USSR border, it was defused by the promised removal of same said missiles within six months, Seriously I would if Russian consider the replacement of similar Nuclear Weapons Back on Cuba!
NATO has passed its use by date by a good 30 years!