With Nuclear, Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled, U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border

[Jan Klimkowski]

If earlier plans to deploy ground-based midcourse missiles to Poland evoked, however implausibly, an alleged Iranian missile threat, the Patriots can only be meant for Russia.

Russian Lieutenant-General Aitech Bizhev, former commander of the United Air Defense System of the Commonwealth of Independent States, told one of his nation's main news agencies:

"It's completely unclear why the air defense group of the northern flank of
NATO needed strengthening - NATO has manifold superiority over Russian
conventional armaments as it is.

"It can't be ruled out that the stationing of the Patriots in Poland may be
followed by other actions in building up the American military infrastructure in Eastern Europe...."

With the "Orange Revolution" likely crushed, NATO is continuing its soft version of the Cold War by other means.