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...Putin's threat is a pointed response to the U.S. decision to install missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. The American justification is that NATO needs to extend its defenses against a potential attack from Iran, but few Russians accept that argument. Poland and the Czech Republic are a vast distance from Iran, so Russian public opinion needs little persuasion by the Kremlin to worry that NATO's true aim is to line up bases against Russia. Such fears have been growing since the mid-1990s. Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin had never imagined that NATO would recruit...
...treaty on conventional forces in Europe show, he is politically clever. The threat is a veiled one. Putin says he first wants to put his argument to the NATO-Russia Council; he intends to appear as a reasonable negotiator. Whether he really thinks the Americans will back down in Poland and the Czech Republic is not clear. But he appeals strongly to Russians. And he can make a lot more trouble in Europe, East and West, before the end of his presidency...
...December, Kleinfeld was caught by surprise during a visit to the company's industrial-steam-turbine business in Görlitz, a provincial city on the Neisse River, which divides Germany and Poland. Kleinfeld walked into a meeting with about 200 of the division's staff, shook a few hands and launched into a pep talk in German. As he started to hit his stride, many of the division's top executives looked on dumbfounded. Then Rene Umlauft, the division CEO, intervened, waving his hand at Kleinfeld and forcing him to stop midsentence. "Excuse me, Mr. Kleinfeld," said Umlauft...
Fiddling with the sports-cap of his Poland Springs water bottle, Jenkins added that he never expected “Semi-Charmed Life” to be played on the radio, considering that it talked “about methamphetamine and fellatio...
...bases was intended to counter an expected Iranian threat, and would not weaken Russia's own nuclear deterrent. "The math and geometry is fairly straightforward and fairly basic," he said. "If the Russians were to fire a missile at the United States, the [U.S. interceptor] missile that's in Poland would not be able to catch the missile that was fired from Russia...