Putin Warns U.S. And Europe

In an interview this weekend with a reporter from Italy's Corriere della Sera, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that United States plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Russia to target its' weapons on Europe.
This is one of President Putin’s most strident statements to date against the U.S. plans and came just days before he is to join President Bush and other leaders at a Group of Eight summit in Germany.
In the interview, Putin was asked whether the proposed missile defense shield would compel Moscow to direct its own missiles at locations and U.S. military sites in Europe, as during the Cold War and his answer was yes.
In January the United States made a formal request to place a radar base in a military area southwest of Prague, Czech Republic, and 10 interceptor missiles in neighboring Poland as part of plans for a missile defense shield that Washington says would protect against a potential threat from Iran.
The U.S. plans have brought a strong reaction from Russia, which accuses the United States of threatening Russian territory and of trying to start a new arms race.
I think that President Putin is trying to regain much of the power that Russia had in the Cold War days, but he is right on this one issue. We do not need to spend billions on a defense shield that offers minimal defense from the threats that we face. Hell if they want to detonate a nuclear weapon in the United States they'll just drive it across the border from Canada and park it near the White House.
Since Reagan's "Star War" days our goverment has found every costly way possible to keep their defense contractor friends in business and the threats should have changed from the former Soviet Union, to terrorists that will employ any method except missiles to kill us.
Please just give this waste of our treasure a rest and move on to the real threats that this nation faces.



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