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Originally Posted by The_Blur
Remember that they are a power with priorities different than the US. They want to be sovereign and have a sphere of influence with neighboring regions. The US is stepping on Russian toes by introducing a missile defense net nowhere near American borders. Even if the intent of the net were to defend US allies, the net does not protect countries with hostile neighbors, like South Korea, Japan, Israel, or any of South America.
In other words, Russia wants to be able to act unilaterally without the US impeding Russian foreign affairs. As a sovereign nation, Russia has every right to be unhappy or even feel threatened by the US defense net.
On the note you made about claiming 100% accuracy, I just want to add that downplaying it's success rate may not be a bad thing. It allows the US to "need" more missile defense units overseas.
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The fact that they want to ACT unilaterally, (given their history) is why Poland and others want US to put in a defense network.
the USSR tried to spend/ build during the cold war, but could not keep up with President Reagan, a Dem congress and the American tax payer (past and future) they built huge #s of planes, we had built quality planes and trained quality pilots (still do) we never tried to keep up with the numbers of tanks/planes/soldiers---- we chose quality over quantity, training and skill over numbers. part of why they are so bold, is all the talk about the American military being over extended, stretched to thin, bla bla bla, sure we are over extended, we have been baby sitting in Iraq ( Iraq- time to get it together and get Iraq back on its feet ) we are in Afghanistan etc... over extended? compared to relaxed on the back porch. But all the
over extended talk has given our 'potential enemies' a little confidence. As far as storming the beaches... that can never happen, the worlds largest 2 Air Forces are US, the US Navy has as many planes as the US Air Force (no offense) and both are highly trained, with years of experience and are working with a higher level of quality aircraft and maintainers with superior logistics capabilities (spare parts) BUT the nukes could end the whole world, IF they tried to go that way, they would lose... we all would.
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