The previous US President George W. Bush, also the commander-in-chief of the American Armed Forces, made agreements with the Czech Republic and Poland in order to build ten antiballistic missiles and to station the appropriate radar systems on the soil of both allies. The purpose was the erection of a defensive shield against the speedily developing Iranian (and North Korean) missile industry.

(From Ivan Denes for German PI, Translation by Anders Denken)

The government and general staff in Russia reacted with paranoia, as if the American missiles to be stationed in Poland would be offensive weaponry rather than defensive weaponry. As countermeasures, Moscow announced their intention to station ISKANDER missiles in the exclave Kaliningrad (Königsberg). The ISKANDER is a short range ground-to-ground missile, no doubt a weapon of offense. A comment about this Russian announcement that presents itself as worthy of psychiatric examination would only be superfluous.

President Barack Obama objects principally to everything George W. Bush undertook during his two terms in office. With great rhetorical extravagance, he announced his “New Beginning” in American-Russian relations, renounced the installation of the defense missiles and radars in Poland and in the Czech Republic, and terminated without notice the contracts that had been agreed upon and in force with both allies.

Moscow reacted promptly and relinquished the installation of the ISKANDER batteries in Kaliningrad. The international strategic situation now develops according to their own internal dictates paying no attention to Barack Obama’s emotional world or to his glowing antipathy against his predecessor.

The USA is bound within the framework of its alliances to guarantee strategic security for its European allies. Without prior announcement, Washington has made an agreement with Romania for the stationing of American missiles/defense missiles on Romanian soil. Negotiations with the same goal are also being held with the Bulgarian government according to press reports (and Russian protests).

It remains hidden among the stars why Obama has changed courses from Poland and the Czech Republic to Romania and Bulgaria. Some individuals stutter in speech. Obama seems to stutter in strategic thinking.

It is only par for the course that his breach of contract has both snubbed and insulted the governments of Prag and Warsaw, and that the trustworthiness of the US government has scarcely been strengthened by all of this.

The fact is, that Moscow answered the corresponding threat in return with a paranoid stuttering counterpoint: ISKANDER missiles in the exclave of Kaliningrad…

Moscow and Washington stutter back and forth to each other — in counterpoint. The inspiring French proverb applies here: “Plus ça change, plus ça reste la même chose” (The more things change, the more they stay the same).

About the author: Ivan Denes (81), who lives in Berlin, is Jewish and was persecuted by the Nazis as well as the Communists. On August 10th, his new book “politisch unkorrekt” premiered at the WPR-Verlag (WPR Publishing House) (9.80 Euros, 128 pages). Contact: ivan.denes@t-online.de.

The previous US President George W. Bush, also the commander-in-chief of the American Armed Forces, made agreements with the Czech Republic and Poland in order to build ten antiballistic missiles and to station the appropriate radar systems on the soil of both allies. The purpose was the erection of a defensive shield against the ...

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