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US, NATO missile defense shield in eastern Europe
Yesterday, NATO backed the US-led plan to expand the missile defense shield to eastern Europe (link: BBC News). Do you support this plan, given Russia's objection? Is there enough evidence to support the claim that Iran and North Korea's weapons programs constitute a threat to the west? Is the threat great enough to justify such an expansive missile defense shield?
I don't think Russia has anything to fear from the West in terms of an attack, but I do think that the spread of NATO has slightly turned the heat up on Russia, and that in over the long run this "tension" in the region could play itself out over some "contested territory" either in the balkans or the caucasus or somewhere closer to Russia.
I don't think its necessary for Eastern European countries to join NATO, except where NATO offers greater political stability, such as in the balkans.
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In my blunt but candid opinion, the American justification that Europe and the US have grave threats from both Iran and the North Korean Missile system, does not bear any logical understanding. Any one who may have some reasonable understanding about the international relations and the intervening American trajectory to controll the transregional military domination, would certaily discard and jettision, without any let and confusion, this American -advocated tactical thesis.
While there may be threats in Iran and a possibly future threats elsewhere in the region, I do not believe the costs that must go into such a project such as this are to great for this day in age. With the budgets strained as badly as they are now, do we have enough justification to pay for such a project now?
The system does not work.It is easily circumvented. It is extremely costly, and it antagonizes Russia and China which could provoke an arms race or expansion into space.Instead of securing loose nukes from the clutches of terrorists and engaing in disarmament that would make the world a safer place on which to reside, we engage in this nonsensical escalation that does nothing for our security and only helps the security industry.This will only place our allies in Eastern Europe in a more precarious position.
