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While the Bush administration claimed that the missile shield was about dealing with a threat from Iran, Obama has made it clear that it is about a threat from Russia, or at least a perceived threat.

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Russia condemns US move to put missiles in Romania

The Kremlin said it was taken aback by news that Romania's top military body had agreed to host US SM-3 interceptor missiles and other military infrastructure in response to an alleged missile threat from Iran.

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Makarov: US anti-missile shield targets Russia

Nikolai Makarov, the chief of Russia's general staff, brushes aside Washington's statements of reassurance regarding US plans to deploy an anti-missile shield in Europe, saying the system is aimed at targeting Russia.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118340&sectionid=351020602


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Russia will not just watch Patriot missiles deployed
http://www.thenews.pl/international/artykul124661_russia-will-not-just-watch-patriot-missiles-deployed.html


From Global Network



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The American Conservative
by Daniel Larison

What may be most remarkable about this is that [Joe Biden’s comment about Russia’s “withering” economy is] not being treated as one of Biden’s legendary gaffes, but rather as an appropriate and acceptable comment. As I was saying earlier this week, the administration must think that Russia’s relatively greater weakness at present will make it more compliant, but I never expected any of its top members to come out and say exactly that. Bizarrely, Biden was offering all of this as evidence in favor of why the ‘reset’ was going to work. In other words, for Biden the ‘reset’ has always meant Russian concessions and submission, and it will ‘work’ because Russia lacks the means to do anything else. This is staggeringly wrong. It seems likely that the ‘reset’ will now blow up in Obama’s face...

http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/07/25/reset-means-obedience/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Condemn Murder of Russian Human Rights Defender
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By Paul Craig Roberts

The Russians, overflowing with energy and mineral resources, and not in debt, have learned that the US government is not to be trusted. Russia has watched Reagan's successors attempt to turn former constituent parts of the Soviet Union into US puppet states with US military bases.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21943.htm



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Joe Biden tells Munich conference: 'US will talk to Iran and ally with Russia against terror'

By Philip Sherwell

He indicated that the US would press ahead with plans for a missile defence project based in Poland and the Czech Republic, while adding riders about the cost and effectiveness of the programme. Moscow was enfuriated when the Bush administration announced the scheme, although the Kremlin has taken a more conciliatory approach since Mr Obama entered the White House.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21923.htm



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By Bill Van Auken

Kyrgyz President Bakiyev's announcement of his intention to shut down the US base followed a meeting in Moscow Tuesday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in which Moscow promised an aid package to Kyrgyzstan worth over $2 billion.

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Tom Parfitt and Julian Borger, The Guardian UK: "Russia has thrown down a new gauntlet to Barack Obama with an announcement that it will sharply increase production of strategic nuclear missiles. In the latest of a series of combative moves by the Kremlin, a senior government official in Moscow said the Russian military would commission 70 strategic missiles over the next three years, as part of a massive rearmament program which will also include short-range missiles, 300 tanks, 14 warships and 50 planes."

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A senior Russian military official expressed concern on Tuesday about what he said were U.S. plans to set up military bases in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081216/118886117.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Mary Dejevsky

The US and UK left the impression that Russia was the guilty party.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21222.htm



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