After Russia's brazen invasion of Georgia to ostensibly protect the South Ossetians, but which has been exposed as nothing less than a power play by the Russians to intimidate further former Soviet Republics from closer ties with the West, Poland has signed a deal cementing a missile defense system emplacement within the country.
Russia has already threatened Poland with nuclear weapons targeting, but the fact is that Russia's actions have spurred NATO into acting and former Republics have realized that the resurgent Red menace on their border isn't content to simply live and let live.
They want to maintain control and dominion over their former holdings, and will use whatever tactics are available, up to and including brutal military force.
To be clear, this missile defense system is designed to protect Europe from missiles fired against it. It's defensive in nature, not an offensive weapons system to be fired first against enemies.
It would be extremely useful against rogue nations that may attempt to fire missiles against Europe, including Iran. It's an insurance policy, and yet Russia treats it as an offensive threat. Then again, everything that the West does is portrayed as an offensive threat, even though it was the Russians who instigated matters in Georgia and whose peacekeepers have been doing anything but - raping and pillaging the Georgian countryside and who haven't withdrawn out of Georgian territory despite the ceasefire.
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