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Headlines : "War on Terror"U.S. planning missile base in Europe
Even the article indicates that Iran doesn’t have the capability to hit western Europe. The real reasoning that’s behind the plan is stated in the article: “The new shield would bring a direct U.S. military presence deeper into Europe.” With U.S.-Russian relations cooling by the headline, this type of grandstanding is likely to grow.
[Posted By senssensibilityr]Republished from Independent
In a move that is raising hackles in Moscow, the US is proposing to install an anti-missile defence system in central Europe to counter any future attack from a nuclear-armed Iran.
The plan, for which the Pentagon has requested $56m (£30m) of exploratory funding from Congress, would cost $1.6bn and involve 10 interceptor units.
The most likely base for the system is Poland, followed by the Czech Republic, officials said. For the moment, the scheme first reported in The New York Times this week and which would parallel the anti-missile shield under construction in Alaska and California against attacks from North Korea is largely symbolic and hypothetical.
Iran currently has no weapons capable of hitting western Europe, let alone an intercontinental missile that could strike the United States. But as a showdown moves closer between the West and Tehran over its uranium-enrichment programme, and with the Israeli Prime Minister in Washington warning that Iran represents a threat not only to Israel but to Western civilisation, the US is determined to send another signal of its determination to act.
The new shield would bring a direct US military presence deeper into Europe. And for Russia, the project reeks of American…
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by this point USMIC explainations for their actions aren’t nearly as important as the actions themselves.
The Empire is looking to expanding militarily, proposing new bases in eastern europe.
Anyone have a current count for their bases?
It won’t be in Poland, the Polish government have allready rejected this proposal. As far as I know the Czech government are more open to the idea, mainly due to the investment involved.
Back to short fuses and the days of the Pershing II missiles. I’d bet that if E.T. existed around here the Stupidator would find a way to aggravate them too.
This breaks the treaty signed with ex USSR on medium range missiles.
The Yanks will send over Monica Luinski to do a bit of under-desk diplomacy. Blair has already converted the UK into a military base for Yanks – the damned Nazis are all over the place (and this just for a fake $4 million lecture tour to the IZNA) when the corrupt arse-suck gets the boot from government.
It might work out though if it is installed – we can kill all the Yanks in Europe, launch a massive nuclear attack on IZNA and use the shield to protect the civilized world from Yankee retaliatory bombs.