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Russia in nuclear threat to Poland
timesonline.co.uk - 8/16/2008
Russia in nuclear threat to Poland
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Russia threatened Poland with a nuclear strike yesterday as the ripples of the Caucasus conflict spread through Europe and pitched West against East along new borders. In a chilling echo of the Cold War, Russia gave warning that Poland was exposing itself to a strike 100 per cent after signing a deal with the US to set up a missile shield on Polish soil. The threat, the strongest since the ...

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Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... the strongest since the fall of the Soviet Union, came as President Saakashvili of Georgia was forced to accept defeat as he signed a truce giving the Russian Army the right to patrol Georgian soil. General Anatoli Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of the general staff in Moscow, said that Russian military doctrine sanctioned the use of nuclear weapons “against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they in some way help them”, as Poland had done in signing the deal. Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/arti...

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Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... down the road to Tblisi, and threatened Poland with nuclear annihilation. While the perturbed Russian response was predictable, I really have to wonder whether, in internal Kremlin discussions, there was any understanding that the military action against Georgia would provoke balancing behavior. In particular, I wonder whether Bill Kristol's Russian counterpart patiently explained to Putin and Medvedev that the offensive would "change the map of the near abroad" and intimidate Poland into giving up on the missiles. ...

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