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WHEN OBAMA PULLED THE MISSILE SHIELD FROM POLAND, HE WAITED FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION TO BREAK THE NEWS ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSSIA

 
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WHEN OBAMA PULLED THE MISSILE SHIELD FROM POLAND, HE WAITED FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION TO BREAK THE NEWS ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSSIA
OBAMA OFFERED POLAND AS A GIFT TO RUSSIA AND SET THE DATE TO COINCIDE WITH THE EXACT DATE OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF POLAND TO MAKE THE ANNOUNCEMENT. HE DIDNT TELL POLAND AND LET THEM FIND OUT BY WATCHING THE NEWS.

IS THIS JUST A LITTLE FUCKED UP OR WHAT?
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U.S. move on missile shield rankles Poland
Decision, seen as a bow to Russia, stirs Cold War fears
By Megan K Stack
October 06, 2009

WARSAW, Poland - – It hardly seems to matter anymore that Poles had long been leery of playing host to U.S. missile interceptors aimed at defending against long-range threats from Iran.

The U.S. decision to back out of the missile shield agreement forged by the Bush administration – and opposed by Russia – has evoked memories among Poles of Cold War helplessness, of being brushed aside as casualties of great power politics.

In Poland and in other nations that were part of the old Soviet bloc, the U.S. announcement played into a historical sense of uncertainty. Warsaw’s political elite spoke of a visceral fear that the Obama administration is willing to sacrifice central Europe in its eagerness to repair badly damaged relations with Russia.

The indignation is partly fueled by bruised feelings over what many here describe as bungled American diplomacy in breaking the news to Warsaw. But there is also concern over the perception that the U.S. overhauled its strategy in part to appease Moscow. The Kremlin loudly opposed the Bush-era shield plan, viewing the presence of ground-based interceptors in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic as a strategic threat.

“It is time now for a mature look, stripped of illusions, at our possibilities and our future,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Rzeczpospolita newspaper last month. “I think today we all know that if we are to look to somebody, we have to look to ourselves.”

Washington says it is changing plans in response to new intelligence assessments about Iran’s capabilities. But the Obama administration has been courting the Kremlin in hopes that Russia will ramp up pressure on Iran and North Korea, and cooperate with efforts to pacify Afghanistan. Days after the U.S. scrapped its plans for interceptors in Poland, Moscow signaled a willingness to take a slightly tougher line with Iran.

The question of Russia’s role in helping drive U.S. policy is a touchy one in this part of the world. It didn’t help that the news broke on a date symbolic for Poles – the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.

Nor was it reassuring that Polish officials seemed to be the last to hear of the change.

“We heard first from the media,” said Witold Waszczykowski, deputy head of Poland’s national security bureau. Speculation that the missile shield plan would be dropped had been in the air since the U.S. presidential campaign in 2008. And yet, Waszczykowski said, Polish leaders were repeatedly reassured that no decision had been reached.


By the time U.S. officials were ready to discuss their decision, Prime Minister Donald Tusk was so furious he refused to take a call from President Barack Obama.

U.S. officials say they are bewildered at the Polish reaction, and argue the shield has not been abandoned but will be altered to defend first against short- and medium-range missiles that require sea-based interceptors.

“It’s not appropriate for me, as American ambassador, to say the people I work for didn’t do something appropriately. And I’m not going to say that,” said Victor Ashe, outgoing U.S. ambassador to Poland. “What happened happened.”

Beneath the angry headlines lurks the question of how Poland should position itself as the U.S. is reaching out to “reset” relations with Moscow.

Poles tend to regard Russia as a dormant geopolitical volcano, a source of past hardship and likely to deliver another eventual blow.

“People don’t understand. They say it’s a phobia, and it is a phobia, but it’s a phobia based on experience,” said Zbigniew Lewicki, head of American Studies at Warsaw University. “Nobody is worried that Russian soldiers will come marching now, but in 10 years, in 20 years? Russia wants to dominate the world as much as possible.”

When Obama visited Moscow this summer and spoke of rebuilding relations, Poles waited to hear where they stood. In Warsaw they pressed State Department officials for answers. “We were pushing: ‘It looks like you made a deal,’ ” Waszczykowski said. “They said, ‘No, it’s not the case.’ The message was, we have to wait.”

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