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U.S. seeks control of Europe through missile shield - Gorbachev
RIA Novosti ^ | 4/12/07

Posted on 04/12/2007 1:45:09 PM PDT by LibWhacker

KALININGRAD, April 12 (RIA Novosti) - Deployment of U.S. missile-defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic is an attempt by the U.S. to control Europe, the former Soviet president said Thursday.

"It is all about influence and domination in Europe," Mikhail Gorbachev said. "I believe it is wrong that America did not even bother to consult its NATO allies."

Asked how Russia could respond to these plans, he only said: "Time will show."

The U.S. revealed plans in January to deploy elements of its missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland to counter possible attacks from Iran or North Korea, whose nuclear programs have provoked serious international concerns.

Russia, which has been anxious about NATO bases that have appeared in former Communist-bloc countries and ex-Soviet republics, has blasted the plans to deploy anti-missile systems in Central Europe as a national security threat and a destabilizing factor for Europe.

The Bush administration has once again cited Ukraine on a list of 15 countries cooperating with the U.S. on its national missile defense system, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

"Today, 15 countries (including nine in NATO) are engaged in missile defense efforts of some kind, whether by hosting key facilities or assets on their territory or actively discussing the possibility, pursuing R&D programs, signing cooperative agreements with the U.S., or maintaining capabilities," Brian R. Green, deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic capabilities, told the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces.

He also said that in addition to the U.S., "the list includes Australia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the U.K.," adding that Russia "clearly believes in the value of missile defense as it continues to maintain a missile defense system around its major population center, Moscow, and has developed defenses against shorter-range missiles."

Another senior Defense Department official said the United States must continue development of its missile defense program.

Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, said the U.S. will launch three missile-defense satellites, in April and November.

The Russia-NATO Council is expected to consider the U.S. missile defense plans April 19, diplomatic sources in Brussels said in March.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: contol; europe; missile; shield

1 posted on 04/12/2007 1:45:12 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Get over it Commie. You lost your Empire.


2 posted on 04/12/2007 1:47:41 PM PDT by SolidWood (Islam is an insanity cult that makes everyone act Arab)
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To: LibWhacker
Yup,Russia is our friend alright!
3 posted on 04/12/2007 1:48:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: SolidWood

Gorby: Ronnie Reagan kicked your a$$-get over it.


4 posted on 04/12/2007 1:49:02 PM PDT by unkus
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To: LibWhacker
I believe it is wrong that America did not even bother to consult its NATO allies."

We did consult our NATO allies. It is our NATO adversaries which we ignored.

5 posted on 04/12/2007 1:49:34 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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To: LibWhacker
Nobody takes this crackpot Communist seriously except other crackpot Communist. He’s preaching to the choir as it were.
6 posted on 04/12/2007 1:49:38 PM PDT by Jaysun (I took one look at her unfashionable eyebrows and thought to myself, "she's literally crazy.")
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To: LibWhacker

We’ve got plenty of people on welfare already, Gorby.


7 posted on 04/12/2007 1:52:16 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: LibWhacker

I think Gorby’s been toking too much.


8 posted on 04/12/2007 1:52:28 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

well, he *does* live in SF after all - he must have found a cache of dried banana skins left over from the ‘60s


9 posted on 04/12/2007 1:56:53 PM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: LibWhacker

Hmmm..... Yes, we’re going to spend billions to deploy a missile shield system in Europe so we can hold Europe hostage...

They either do what we want, or we let the Russians, Iranians, or whoever wants to obliterate them go ahead and do it.

Sure, makes sense to me. /sarc


10 posted on 04/12/2007 1:57:21 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: LibWhacker
"I object to you building defenses against my peace loving country's military power!"

What a load.

11 posted on 04/12/2007 1:58:27 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: SolidWood

History would be kind to Gorby if he can just stfu.


12 posted on 04/12/2007 1:58:59 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isnt "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: LibWhacker; MoochPooch; Michael81Dus; Vicomte13; az_gila; Experiment 6-2-6; henkster; CT-Freeper; ..
Europe pinglist.
13 posted on 04/12/2007 2:16:27 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: LibWhacker
Control Europe?

Hell, most of us don't even like the place let alone want to control it.

14 posted on 04/12/2007 2:19:12 PM PDT by LibKill ("RUDY GIULIANI" is just "HILLARY CLINTON" misspelled and wearing a dress.)
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To: LibWhacker
What is this commie sob doing living in California and still making rabid Radio Moscow style propaganda threats?

We will bury them Vlad!

15 posted on 04/12/2007 3:16:48 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: Dumpster Baby

How could anyone try to dominate Europe OR Russia with this hand full of missiles ?

They couldn’t even neutralize 10% of russias nuclear war heads in the very unlikely attempt to end human live on earth.

It’s all about keeping germanies peace protestors (aka usefull donkeys) marching demanding closer ties to russia.

That’s not even a stupid idea but not if it’s instead of transatlantic friendship.


16 posted on 04/13/2007 6:35:02 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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