This is for all the vampires on this board LOL. No offense, eh??
So anyways, considering that Romania is part of NATO, it's no surprise that NATO is expaninding it's operations within Europe. Both militarily as well as expanding further east.....
HINT: There's only one other LARGE country that goes eastward from Europe.
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So the big question is: Protect Europeans from what??Romania has backed a US plan that would see interceptor missiles deployed in the country as part of a missile shield to protect Europe,.....
It ain't from cows that fly in without passports from the moon, that's for sure.
Look at the HINT I gave above.
I strongly believe that it's part of a containment strategy against Russia.
Ya, right. Like when cows turn pink and 'milk' little green men, it will.......the country's top defence body had agreed to be part of a system against "potential attacks with
ballistic missiles or medium-range rockets".......Traian Basescu sought to assure Russia, which had previously condemned plans for a missile shield, that the proposed move was not a threat.
"The new system is not against Russia. I want to categorically stress this, Romania [will] not host a system against Russia, but against other threats,
Well, if Russia welcomed the plan then why do you think they did??....The announcement of a planned missile defence in Romania comes months after Washington shelved a plan to place missile defence facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland - a move welcomed by Moscow
Obviously b/c Chech and Poland are pretty much on Russia's frontier, yes??
And Romania has proximity to Russia, yes??
Well, yes. I can see the logic of that. Defense against let's say other aggressors such as China or some other country in the Middle East, or as the US strongly believes and perpetuates across it's allies, North Korea."Russia's official position is that only that missile defence is good which is missile defence together with Russia, a joint control.
Or even other nations that are viewed as aggressors by the West, such as Iran.
But overall, there are other reasons for placement of missiles within Romania. Remember the conflict in Georgia last year??
I think that such moves within NATO could be established as part of such contingencies and plans.
From what I do understand, Georgia is also extremely interesting in joining NATO.
But let's continue on with potential reasons for placement of missiles inside Romania. Here's one such reason that I briefly made mention of above:
A plan unveiled last September by Barack Obama,...includes land-and sea-based missile systems in and around the Gulf to defend against what it says is a growing Iranian missile threat...........In past years, Romania's parliament has solidly backed participation in US and Nato-led military ventures, including Romanian troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
and that last enbolded bit is one reason why these 2 countries are cooperating so strongly over such an issue and could also possibly explain the reasons for the US to have sought cooperation from Romania.
Now think about other benefits that Romania could benefit from such cooperation...well, there's economic benefit for one thing. That's a plus for any small European country that may desire to expand busineess of it's own in the US.
But is that ethical??
Weapons for business. In today's climate, apparently it is ethical from a business and industrial perspective. But from the perspective of peace vs. war, that is not ethical.
here's the link:
As a side note. Is it ethical and morally correct that another country that has, and strongly desires to have more international clout than what other nations deserve, to do business such as how the US government is acting towards??
That's a rhetorical question.
So you answer it yourself.
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