Russians To Deploy Missiles On Border With Poland

The Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, within hours after the election of Barack Obama as the new US President announced the deployment of Iskander missiles in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad next to the border with Poland.

Believed to be a response both to the missile shield deployment in Poland and as a way to test the new administration, thought it does not take over the office until January 20th 2009.

This leaves current President Bush, with the choice of leaving this for the next President to deal with or taking a stance now. It is yet to be known what he will do.

This is also just one of many things the Russian's have done lately to bolster its status and power in the world of late. I have written about some of these things earlier such as New Cold War Heats Up, Is Russia Renewing the Cold War With Words and Actions?, and Russia To Deploy New Nuclear Missile.

Evidence seems to support that the Russians with their new found oil funded wealth will be making a power play for years to come...

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New Cold War Heats Up

Former President of Russia, Putin Warns of direct confrontation with United States, as Russia threatens nuclear attack on Poland over missile shield.

All of this as NATO, and U.S. ships are just a few miles away from Russian ships at separate Georgian ports in the Black Sea.

Putin, has gone as far as accusing the United States of starting the conflict in Georgia, and has received reports from his military officers that U.S. citizens were in the area of conflict, which he views as helping the Georgian military.

Russian General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said that any new US assets in Europe could come under Russian nuclear attack with his forces targeting "the allies of countries having nuclear weapons".

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