Russia Threatens Nuclear War
What else does “will go beyond diplomacy” mean? A dance off? Don’t think so.
Russia says its response to the further development of a U.S. missile shield in Poland will go beyond diplomacy.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the U.S. missile shield plans are clearly aimed at weakening Russia.
The U.S. says the missile defense system is aimed at protecting the U.S. and Europe from future attacks from states like Iran.
The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia’s westernmost fringe.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
Any doubt about who was in the wrong in the Georgia v. Russia showdown has completely vanished for me. Russia was the aggressor and they now think they can bully everyone in the world into submission. Putin is off his rocker and something needs to be done to get that mad man out of power.
Seriously, what in the world is Russia thinking? They have no threatened war on Poland. If it comes to that they better wait and make sure Obama gets elected because McCain will not stand for this.
“When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988,” Rice said. “It’s 2008 and the United States has a … firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland’s territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it’s probably not wise to throw these threats around.”
Just so we all know where we stand, Russia has threatened NUCLEAR WAR on Poland.
After Warsaw and Washington announced the agreement on the deal last week, top Russian Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn warned that Poland is risking attack, and possibly a nuclear one, by deploying the American missile defense system, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.
Poles have been shaken by the threats, but NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop dismissed them Tuesday as “pathetic rhetoric.”
“It is unhelpful and it leads nowhere,” he told reporters at a NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium.
I’ve got a little bit more to add now. I hope NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop is right but I’m not willing to bet on it. What we have in this missile shield is ten interceptors, those Patriot missiles. They aren’t tipped with anything and, oh, I don’t know, I think Russia might have a few more than ten nukes. What do you think?
The Russians need to just get a nice sports car to make themselves think they’re bigger in all the right places. Because the fact of the matter is they are the paper dragon. They cannot win an engagement with the West. They would lose the war in a couple of days.
Maybe they think rhetoric is enough to get their way. I hope that’s true. Until them we need to work to verify that they are just acting like puffed up children. If this gets out of hand we will be in WWIII very quickly.BigT
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