The Missile Shield is shelved! Huzzah!

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mrstickball said:

highwaystar101 said:

mrstickball said:
highway -

If Russia attacked Eastern Europe, who would flatten them exactly?

Half world would, I mean come on, there were supposed to be nuclear weapons in Iraq and half the damn world went to war against them. Russia don't exactly have a lot of people on their side, it would be extremely stupid to make a random attack on eastern Europe. They are not a popular country.

However, we don't want war, we want peace. And I thinks it's disgusting that the second a 'liberal' takes the chance to offer the olive branch of peace to Russia and likely repair frayed relations and the neo-cons just come out with, quite frankly, sleazy attacks. Do these people not want peace with Russia or something. Obama has made a great gesture to Russia and if Russia act accordingly I think Obama would have made the world a slightly nicer place to live, but a small percentage of people want to make a bad issue out of something that the vast majority see as positive.

What about the fact America now has soured relations with the countries (Poland, Czech Republic) that wanted to host the shield? They've already drawn the ire of Russia for hosting such a shield, and now we're saying 'We care about the bigger guy a whole lot more' - Should we really hang our allies out to dry? We're now in a lose-lose situation: We're placating a dictatorship, and alienating the exact people that are trying to get away from that kind of horrible near-dictatorship.

Plus, we did this on the 70th anniversary of the Soviets taking over Poland. Great way to make 'em fearful, eh?

Kinda paranoic, I doubt Russia will do anything to those countries. The shield was stupid from the beggining anyway.