{"id":195427,"date":"2008-07-09T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/09\/euro-missile-defense-update\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T22:43:00","slug":"euro-missile-defense-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/09\/euro-missile-defense-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro Missile Defense Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Czech Republic have signed a deal over the ABM radar, and the Russians are suggesting that they, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7496399.stm\">will be forced to react not in a diplomatic fashion but with military-technical means<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a polite way of saying that nuclear weapons will be targeted at the Czech Republic, likely in a launch on warning stature.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech people overwhelmingly oppose this, so one wonders if this will last past the Bush regime, particularly if the Russians bring natural gas shipments into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>In a related note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/145045\">Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski talked with both McCain and Obama<\/a>, and the sick old man is gave assurances that the program would progress under him, but Obama refused to say anything.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that the Russians are right.  This missile base is being located in a place <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">spectacularly<\/span> ill suited to defend against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The only way that the sites could be located any further from Iran is if they were in the Baltic states.<\/p>\n<p>Were the missile sights located in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, or Turkey, it would provide better protection from an Iranian strike.<\/p>\n<p>What this is about is the desire by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> to recreate the evil Russian empire for electoral benefit, and, for Condi Rice specifically, to recreate relevance in her area of expertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Czech Republic have signed a deal over the ABM radar, and the Russians are suggesting that they, &#8220;will be forced to react not in a diplomatic fashion but with military-technical means.&#8221; This is a polite way of saying that nuclear weapons will be targeted at the Czech Republic, likely in a launch &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,964,1096,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-missile-defense","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195427"}],"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=195427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}