Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Here's hoping America keeps a firm stance about placing its missile shield in sovereign central European allied countries, and that the EU takes a unified, strong stance against Russia too.
I have to disagree with you for once, the missile shield does NOTHING to protect Europe, it's for targeting ICBMs in flight, not when they're about to land. The shield only benefits the US (perhaps western Europe is far enough away too, but I digress). If they want the shield up in our backyard, they'd better be paying us enough for it...

Now against Russia, we need a strong front. Heck, we just need a strong front, some sort of European Defense Force, a *defensive* army which would only operate within our borders unless it's in retaliation, following an official declaration of war. Countries can still have their own armies all over the world and do with them what they want, but we need some sort of unified defensive army.

All this episode really shows me is that Bush doesn't give a :flower: about Europe anymore, he's just using us so he has a place to dump his overpriced toys. You don't think Iran has ICBMs do you ? The whole missile shield is a farce, and as Putin has shown, a dangerous one at that. The arms race is on again.