Why are US Democrats & the Russian Gov't against missile defense in Poland?

Question

Peace

http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/080815/issues01.html?.v=1

Answer 1

For the Ruskies, just large scale NIMBYism.

Dems are traditionally weak on defense.

Answer 2

I suspect the democrats are against it because the Russians are against it - and the democrats aren't very big on confrontations.

The Russians are against it simply because they see it as an effort by the West to essentially surround them with the American military - regardless of the "defense" premise.

Answer 3

They both hate a strong and independent america.They want to take us down. A free and strong america doesn't fit in with their plans for the new world order.

Answer 4

The Russians to do not like the missile defense shield because it represents a threat to their ability to exert influence over other parts of the world with land based ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles).  And this system placed in Poland would almost ensure that if the Russians chose to launch a land based nuclear warhead that it would be destroy within Russian airspace and cause most of the debris to land on their population.  It also limits their ability to tell members of the former Soviet Union not to join NATO.

The Democrats do not like it because they feel that it will propel Russia to create more mobile launch platforms (e.g. ballistic missile submarines.  By the way most of Russia's operational nuclear warheads are already placed on platforms such as submarines)  and therefore cause more nuclear proliferation.

Regardless of the views of the democrats or the Russians we have seen that the Russians are afraid of the NATO alliance and of their former Soviet neighbors joining NATO, as shown by their invasion of Georgia.

Answer 5

Both are delusional. The Democrats think if you give everyone hugs and do what they want, they will leave you alone. They obviously have ignored every piece of human history to this point in time.

The Russians still think they can dominate their former Warsaw Pact fiefdoms. They obviously have forgot how hated they are in eastern Europe.

Fundamentally, the system has been successfully tested and is not pointed at Russia.

Answer 6

The impetus for Dems to appease in hope that we will be liked, is nothing new.

It's now clear that the Russians have been against the shield in Europe, as it may deter their own efforts, not for any complicated issues with Iran.

It's clear that the Bear is back. Putan, a former KGB operative has seen how Dems have divided our nation on the world stage while we are at war.

So hold on...we're in for a bumpier ride than anyone could have imagined.  

Answer 7

That so-called news report is a spin-up job. The Polish had reporters in Georgia before the Russians kicked the Georgians out of South Ossetia!

The Polish are fully aware, unlike many in the US, that Russia went in AFTER a brutal attack on their citizens and AFTER they went to the UN to get an Emergency meeting to stop the genocide! (August 7th). Russia crossed into South Ossetia on the 9th.

Georgia had attacked several of the South Ossetian villages before attacking their capital city on the 8th after agreeing to a ceasefire they snuck up to the capital and murdered civilians in there homes and refugees were strafed on the roads leaving the city!

The United Nations turned Russia down because the US said so. The US is involved with the pipelines and probably led the Georgians to believe that if they attack their neighbors they will get US and NATO backing...Both Karl Rove and Condi Rice visited the President of Georgia a few weeks ago. Coincidence? Sure. Just like all those Israeli commandos that were in Georgia that day. And the US and Israeli weapons found with the Georgian Army. Russia says there are foreign fighters found with the dead and villagers say they heard English spoken by the attackers.

We'll see. There is a lot of video by foreign reporters and the Russians  took pictures of the Georgian Army's ordinance they destroyed systematically. (Which is what they were reporting and showing the rest of the world while US "news" reported they are heading to Tblisi etc. The Russians were mopping up the weapons left behind the fleeing Georgians (and Israelis). One town, after they blew up some abandoned tanks etc, they called the Georgian police etc and waited til they came back in to restore order and secure small ordinance from looting!

Watch some foreign news and video from on the spot journalism not US propaganda. Aren't you sick of being lied to?