Russian president Vlad Putin is scrapping the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe treaty. the pact had been intended to reduce East-West tensions by restricting where each could deploy its forces. The idea was to prevent one side becoming alarmed by the other lining up army divisions along their common border, poised to strike.
Putin, of course, is miffed at Bush's insistence on positioning parts of his anti-ballistic radar and interceptor system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Bush claims the system is intended to deal with a missile attack from a rogue state such as Iran. Putin sees it, instead, as an attempt to contain Russian military power and influence, especially after Bush rejected Putin's offer to use a radar site in Azerbaijan better suited for monitoring the skies over Iran.
The Russian move has NATO and the US furious which is a tad strange given that Washington and several NATO states never ratified the treaty in the first place. Yet the Euros probably won't do very much more than whine given their dependence on Russia for natural gas supply.
do you blame him, what whould any sane leader do if a foreing country would put missiles on their borders. Let me put it another way, to protect siberia from chechen rogue rockets russia puts missile defence in........lets see.........Cuba...
ReplyDeleteRussia is probably going to be pushing for anything it can in the near future, and we all know it will start with the Arctic.
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