Cold War Mark II?

With hard-liner Putin in power in Russia, why are we jerking their chain by putting 10 ABM’s in Poland with high powered targeting radar in the Czech Republic?

We are also either in the process of – or already have – signing a mutual defense treaty with Poland. If I remember right, the start of World War II was due to both Britain and France had similar pacts with Poland (although theirs were unenforceable).

Russia’s military second in command, General Staff Col.-Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, has already stated that by deploying these missiles, Poland is opening itself up to a nuclear attack. Russia’s attack on Georgia shows that the Bear really hasn’t changed much, but we may have to wait until Putin finally loses his grasp on power to see if this is truly a Russian policy of the bad old days or if it’s Putin personally.

Regardless of the U.S. claim that these are being placed to intercept Iranian missiles, I doubt there are many sane people who are buying that. I remember Cuba in 1962, and have no desire to ever see anything like that again. This time it looks to me that we are the ones forcing Russia’s hand, and I think it’s idiotic.