{"id":20809,"date":"2016-05-29T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20809"},"modified":"2016-05-29T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:31:33","slug":"putin-warns-romania-and-poland-against-installing-abm-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20809","title":{"rendered":"Putin Warns Romania and Poland Against Installing ABM Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/05\/putin-warns-romania-poland-installing-abm-missiles.html\">Putin Warns Romania and Poland Against Installing ABM Missiles<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Friday, May 27th, Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin again asserted that American President Barack Obama lies when saying that the reason America\u2019s anti-ballistic missile (\u201cABM\u201d) or Ballistic Missile Defense (\u201cBMD\u201d) system is being installed in Romania, and will soon be installed in Poland, is to protect Europe from Iranian missiles that don\u2019t even exist and that Obama himself says won\u2019t exist because of Obama\u2019s deal with Iran. Putin is saying: I know that you are lying there, not being honest. You\u2019re aiming to disable our retaliatory capacity here, not Iran\u2019s. I\u2019m not so dumb as to believe so transparent a lie as your assurances that this is about Iran, not about Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Putin says that ABMs such as America is\u00a0<a title=\"installing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.defense-aerospace.com\/articles-view\/release\/3\/173811\/aegis-ashore-missile-defense-site-in-romania-declared-operational.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">installing<\/span><\/a>, disable a country\u2019s (in this case, Russia\u2019s) ability to retaliate against a blitz invasion \u2014 something increasingly likely from NATO now as NATO has extended right up to Russia\u2019s very borders \u2014 and that Russia will not allow this disabling of Russia\u2019s retaliatory forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s3\"><a title=\"He said\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/344642-putin-visit-greece-tsipras\/\" target=\"_blank\">He said<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0that \u201cNATO fend us off with vague statements that this is no threat to Russia \u2026 that the whole project began as a preventive measure against\u00a0Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Where is that program now? It doesn\u2019t exist. \u2026\u00a0We have been saying since the early 2000s that we will have to react somehow to your\u00a0moves to undermine international security. No one is listening to us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other words, he is saying that the West is ignoring Russia\u2019s words, and that therefore Russia will, if this continues, respond by eliminating the ABM sites before they become fully operational. To do otherwise than to eliminate any fully operational ABM system on or near Russia\u2019s borders would be to leave the Russian people vulnerable to a blitz attack by NATO, and this will not be permitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin Warns Romania and Poland Against Installing ABM Missiles On Friday, May 27th, Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin again asserted that American President Barack Obama lies when saying that the reason America\u2019s anti-ballistic missile (\u201cABM\u201d) or Ballistic Missile Defense (\u201cBMD\u201d) system is being installed in Romania, and will soon be installed in Poland, is to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3822,13940,3306,13941,4394,281,553,1046,11129,827,857,5510],"class_list":["post-20809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-abm","tag-abm-missiles","tag-barack-obama","tag-bmd","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-europe","tag-nato","tag-poland","tag-romania","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20811,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20809\/revisions\/20811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}