{"id":193802,"date":"2008-11-15T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/15\/russia-makes-offer-on-euro-missile-defense\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T01:33:00","slug":"russia-makes-offer-on-euro-missile-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/15\/russia-makes-offer-on-euro-missile-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Makes Offer on Euro Missile Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/missiles\/Russia_will_abandon_missile_plans_if_US_cancels_shield160016693.php\">won&#8217;t place missiles in Kaliningrad if the US terminates its ABM installation in Poland and the Czech Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that the Russians consider this a direct threat.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also not surprising that they consider the expansion of NATO a direct threat.<\/p>\n<p>Their worst case scenario is, &#8220;What would have happened if Georgia had been a NATO member?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are people in positions of power, or one election away from a position of power, in many of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations who would be inclined to be just as crazy as Georgian President Saakaskvili, only when <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">they<\/span> launch an assault on an unarmed populace that is inclined toward the Russians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They won&#8217;t place missiles in Kaliningrad if the US terminates its ABM installation in Poland and the Czech Republic. It&#8217;s not surprising that the Russians consider this a direct threat. It&#8217;s also not surprising that they consider the expansion of NATO a direct threat. Their worst case scenario is, &#8220;What would have happened if Georgia &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1040,1096,1043,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-former-soviet-union","category-missile-defense","category-nato","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}