I didn’t say that first part, Frank. Don’t yell at me.

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read in this blog, and I have been reading it for a long time.

You know nothing about the history of Russia, and how it relates to Poland.

You know nothing about the history of Poland , and how it relates to Russia and Germany.

You nothing about International Relations, as the US relates to the rest of the world.

You have exactly one thing right, whatever Pres Obama does, he will be perceived of as weak, because he is weak.

1) Russia sends nukes at Poland, in order to soften them up for invasion.
2) We launch interceptors, which knock out 1 or 2 incoming missiles.
3) Poland is annihilated.
4) Russians march in, get radiation sickness, and die.
5) Republicans call Obama weak.

OR

1) Russia threatens to nuke Poland.
2) Poland says “go fuck yourselves,” knowing that a nuked Poland is worth nothing to Russia (they assume Russian leaders are smarter than Frank).
3) Russia doesn’t launch nukes.
4) Russia considers a conventional invasion
5) Russia remembers Chechnya and Afghanistan, and says “fuck it.”
6) Republicans call Obama weak.

It’s win-win!

Further, don’t you see that it’s entirely necessary that we spend more on defense than the entire rest of the world combined, because shut up that’s why? Anything less is surrendering to terrorists!

Or maybe we’re just giving too much voice to a mob of pants-pissing dumbshits who think China wants to invade us at the drop of a hat while totally ignoring the Russians on their border.

Let’s not make it into something that it isn’t – the US has a lot of tools in the box for diplomacy besides a rusty saber, let’s use ones that work for a change.

Let’s say you’re Poland, and you want to make a deal with, say, Bermuda. Let’s say, Russia no likee. They move a few thousand tanks to your border.

What do you do?

Answer: Nothing. You had a friend in the USA who would kick their ass, or at least prevent them from kicking your ass.

Now you have a wuss who backs down from Putin.

Imagine if FDR had said, “If we go to war with Japan and Germany, our Armies will be stretched out on two fronts. We’ll lose a lot of American lives! Let them have what they want, and they’ll go away”.

In answer to your

Oh, I don’t know, Duros, maybe because Poland was their satellite for about 40 years, until the team of Walesca , Thatcher, Reagan and Pope John Paul II took it, and the rest of the U S S R, away from them…

But, of course, we can tell Putin is the kind of guy who forgives and forgets.

Especially when Poland is upwind.

You shouldn’t talk about Bush and Rummy that way.

Another prognostication, Frank? What’s your record again?

Choose one:
1) Because anti – missile defense systems are prohibited by the Russian Orthodox Church?
2) Because they are offended that we still think they are aggressors, and their feelings are hurt?
3) Because the Russians plan on intimidating the Poles with missiles as a means of political /economic extortion?

You can’t have everything. Where would you keep it? –S. Wright

Wars of global conquest based on political ideology are passe’. Religious fundamentalism is the big threat to peace these days.

Real world: President probably AVERTS an attack on Poland by scrapping a system that probably would have done little, apart from transfer a pile of taxpayer money to defense contractors.

Conservative: President shows weakness and INVITES attack on Poland. Also, is a big wuss,loves commies.

That’s because he had a psychopath as Sec Def, for god sake! No one knew what they were doing!

Because what are we without our dependence on foreign oil, anyway?