As of August 20, Poland has formally agreed to allow offensive US “interceptor missiles” on its soil.
“The Warsaw signing followed the Czech Republic’s April willingness to install “advanced tracking missile defense radar” by 2012. In both instances, Russia strongly objected, and on August 20 said it will “react (and) not only through diplomatic protests.” Both former Warsaw Pact countries are now targets. The threat of nuclear war is heightened.” – The Palestine Chronicle
It seems a mighty coincidence that these arrangements, which have been in the works for years now, have concluded so soon after Russia began kicking the ass of another former satellite-state, Georgia. In any case, the American government claims that the missile defence systems being set up in and around central Europe are to protect America from rogue threats, such as Iran. However, according to the above article, Iranian missiles can’t reach Europe. Washington rejected Russia’s proposed Azerbaijan-based joint US-Russian anti-missile system – to intercept and destroy Iranian missiles on launch. We have to assume, therefore, that America is, in fact, targeting Russia, despite what government officials say to the contrary.
Russia is of course being villianised for it’s consequent threats towards Poland, who it says will become a target if it goes ahead with it’s agreements with the States. But I think it’s easy to only see this situation from our side, the side of ‘the good guys.’
If I was Russia right now, I’d be shitting myself. Of COURSE America is setting up these defense systems to target Russia.
I can’t help but feel a little hard-done-by, as a European. We’re essentially being sandwiched between two bullying, Imperialist super-powers who are throwing their weight around and slowly but surely pulling out the big guns.
Imagine the common scenario of a bitterly divorced couple, who are using the children to get back at one another. It’s kind of like central Europe is the children, and Russia and the States are the parents.
Now, to take the scenario a step further, imagine the situation escalates to one of those reports that you occasionally hear on the news or in trashy gossip rags, where the father kills the children to spite the mother. Replace ‘exhaust-gas with the child-locks on’ with ‘nuclear fall-out,’ and there you have it.
Because we all know that if the shit hits the fan, central Europe’s going to be the battle-zone, so to speak.
I also can’t help but laugh at the irony of US foreign policy, which seems to deem every country not serving their interests to be not responsible enough to be ‘allowed’ nuclear arms, when we all know from history and our good friends Hiroshima and Nagasaki that “America + nukes = the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.”
I think what the American government, and the sycophantic hangers-on of the international community (as in, ourselves, the UK), need to keep in mind while carrying out the kind of foreign policy we’ve seen in recent years, is that the US may not always be top of the economic food chain. It’s easy enough to wage imperialist wars on falsified pretences for personal gain, or engage in the practice of what many would deem war crimes under the dubious flag of counter-terrorism, when you’re the world’s industrial superpower – when you hold all the cards. But if, one day, a country that is not so fond of American policy, or has been directly wronged by it, were to obtain an economic (and consequently, military) advantage over the US – and this is a realstic possibility in the current climate – then they would, to eloquently put it, be fucked. And it’s the US civilians who would suffer for it.
