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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:35 PM Apr 2015

Poland To Build Missile Defense With US

Source: Reuters

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski says the defense minister will travel to the U.S. in May to negotiate cooperation on a state-of-the-art missile defense system that Poland wants to build.

Poland is accelerating efforts to upgrade its defense systems and armed forces, spurred by the conflict between Russian-backed separatists and government forces in neighboring Ukraine. Komorowski did not specify what technology or hardware Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak would be seeking in Washington.

Poland's government on Tuesday approved development of an own air defense system, proposed after U.S. plans under President George W. Bush to build a "shield" for the region were scaled down by the administration of President Barack Obama.

Komorowski also said that Poland will test Airbus helicopters H225M as it is nearing a large purchase for the Air Force.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/poland-buy-u-patriots-missiles-picks-airbus-helicopters-151504186--finance.html

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Poland To Build Missile Defense With US (Original Post) Purveyor Apr 2015 OP
this is good samsingh Apr 2015 #1
Good for them. nt okaawhatever Apr 2015 #2
Congrats, Pooty Poot, invasions have unintended consequences nt geek tragedy Apr 2015 #3
Well Jeb is travelling to Poland, Estonia & Germany this summer. misterhighwasted Apr 2015 #4
The short answer to your comment donnasgirl Apr 2015 #5
If this keeps up project_bluebook Apr 2015 #6
The Harvard Boys Do Russia bananas Apr 2015 #7

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
4. Well Jeb is travelling to Poland, Estonia & Germany this summer.
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:45 PM
Apr 2015

And I thought it was just to gain some photo ops for his resume's foreign policy experience.

Could Jeb be heading to Poland for "another reason"?
Securing a contract deal for the good of the crime family perhaps?

bananas

(27,509 posts)
7. The Harvard Boys Do Russia
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 02:10 PM
Apr 2015
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-future-of-humankind-is-at-stake.html

The Future of Humankind is at Risk
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

There is little doubt that US-NATO are advancing a dangerous and provocative military strategy to take down the Russian government. The US thought they had full control of Russia when Boris Yeltsin ran the country after the fall of the former Soviet Union in 1991. Washington is not happy with the way things turned out and appears to be saying, "Vengeance will be mine."

In an article entitled The Harvard Boys Do Russia The Nation magazine reported in 1998:

Through the late summer and fall of 1991, as the Soviet state fell apart, Harvard Professor Jeffrey Sachs and other Western economists participated in meetings at a dacha outside Moscow where young, pro-Yeltsin reformers planned Russia's economic and political future. Sachs teamed up with Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin's first architect of economic reform, to promote a plan of "shock therapy" to swiftly eliminate most of the price controls and subsidies that had underpinned life for Soviet citizens for decades. Shock therapy produced more shock--not least, hyperinflation that hit 2,500 percent--than therapy.

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The US elite thought they had Moscow safely in the corporate bag back in the early 1990's but saw that long sought control slip away under the Putin administration. Washington has repeatedly shown that it does not like to be denied and thus is willing to face a nuclear war with Russia in order to finish the job of corporate consolidation.

Sadly few citizens in the US know this history and lack a clear understanding of the present situation and the dangers involved. Even many so-called peace activists are still blind to what the corporate dominated government in Washington is doing.

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