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US might delay missile shield, Czech foreign minister says
Jan 29, 2009, 12:08 GMT
Vienna - Czech Foreign Minister Karel Scharzenberg said in Vienna on Thursday that he could imagine that the United States would delay its Central European missile shield project, one day after Russia reacted positively to a perceived shift in US policy.
Russia halted plans to deploy Iskander missiles in its European enclave of Kaliningrad on Wednesday, responding to signals that the new Obama administration would review its missile shield project to be stationed in the Czech Republic and Poland.
'They will hardly call it off, but I can imagine a delay,' Schwarzenberg told reporters in regard to the plans of the new US administration.
The foreign minister was in Vienna for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Schwarzenberg welcomed Russia's policy shift and said that in the course of the global economic crisis, the US, Europe and Russia might have discovered 'that we have more problems that we must solve jointly, rather than creating new ones.'
Russia might have also understood that its announcement last November about its missile deployments 'did not benefit Russia's image,' Schwarzenberg said.
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I am with you, brother - ProudSerb.
That's exactly what the superior brains in London and Washington are
longing for - while playing games of who is having upper hand in the
TEAM of Medviediev and Vladimir Putin of present day Russia.
It looks to me, that there is a desire to destabilize Russia, using
any means - but the monster Putin and his team mate Medviediev are
clearly understanding this. And, hopefully - Russians as well.
The Polish Radek Sikorski will have to prepare another speech for
the AIPAC and Georgestown University listeners.
Illinois, USA
Obama hasnīt scrapped the missiles in Poland, only postponed deployment.
According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org-the Pentagonīs strategy for Nuclear War is a coordinated First Strike attack on Russian and Chinese submarines and missile silos, command centres, and bomber bases. According to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Please see the article by Keir Lieber and Daryl Press, 'The Rise of US Nuclear Primacy', in the 2006 March/April issue of Foreign Affairs.
According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge the US aims to achieve a disarming, unanswerable first-strike capability. In his view, the deployment of the RS-24 missiles wonīt stop the US from achieving a First-Strike Capability.
The Russians may have no choice but implementing Launch On Warning.
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proud_SerbianJan 30th, 2009 - 08:52:48
Russia might have also understood that its announcement last November about its missile deployments 'did not benefit Russia's image,'
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Yes, Russia should have a satrap like a drunk Yeltsin, I sure this 'Zionist Prince' would approve of that Russia.
His capacity to overestimate anglosphere's superiority may bring him a Nobel Peace prize.????
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