Word: polander
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...able to halt expanding NATO, as former members of the Warsaw Pact do not seem less eager to join the Western Alliance. While Putin and his troops have succeeded in lashing out at Georgia, such action against former Warsaw Pact allies like the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland - all now NATO members - would be suicidal. But for the near term, the Putin Doctrine is now in play...
...Kaczynski, a longtime supporter of the shield, said the crisis in Georgia - which, like Poland, is an ex-communist country turned U.S. ally - prompted the government to cut protracted negotiations short and ink the deal. "I believe that the events in Georgia caused the government finally to understand that black is black and white is white," Kaczynski told Polish television...
...Moscow has long opposed the deployment, charging that the U.S. missiles are directed against Russia rather than "rogue states" (notably Iran), as Washington has insisted. Yet Russia's opposition awakened sensitive concerns about preserving national sovereignty: Soviet satellites until 1989, the Czech Republic and Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union...
...Moscow thought the threat of nuclear retaliation would cow Poland into rejecting a controversial U.S. missile shield, it learned otherwise over the weekend, as the Polish press and public rallied around a government decision to endorse the deployment...
...very happy," said President Lech Kaczynski after the government signed the deal on Thursday, which allows 10 interceptor missiles to be installed in Poland by 2011-2013. Together with a radar facility in the neighboring Czech Republic, the missiles are intended to complete a defense system already in place in the U.S., Greenland and Britain...