NYcarbineer
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I agree with that...and I think the other thing that Putin saw was the 'RESET'...when Obama failed to deploy missles in Eastern Europe. And whom could forget...
Obama open mic slip: 'After my election I have more flexibility' - YouTube
I'm waiting for someone to explain how a missile defense system, designed in fact to protect Europe from Iran,
a missile defense system that btw doesn't work, a missile defense system that the Russians could easily counter with missiles of their own if need be,
how would that have prevented Russia from doing what it's doing now in Ukraine?
The missile defense system itself was immaterial, the threat to Russia is the sphere of influence and the military involvement of the West right on their borders. Just stop and think what our reaction would be if the Russians proposed to deploy missile defense batteries in Mexico ostensibly to protect the Mexicans from a missile attack from Brazil, do you think for a second we wouldn't do everything possible to stop it? Remember the Cuban Missile crisis?
The defense system doesn't actually have to work or even be actually deployed, it just has to be on the table to be useful as a bargaining chip, the Administration effectively tossed that bargaining chip right out the window and much of the Eastern Europeans goodwill and confidence in us along with it.
No. Missile defense is just a brilliant scheme by the defense lobby and all their stooges in various places of power in and around the government to get us into a new arms race.
The offensive missile arms race has petered out,
what better, for the defense money interests, than to get us into another arms race based on defending ourselves from the missiles the last arms race created?