Russians threaten that the recent agreement between the United States and Poland regarding the missile defense system inside Poland, risks missile attacks, even nuclear. Russian General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, also chief of staff, said: “Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to a strike — 100 percent.”
However, Russia’s military may have overrun a weak regional Georgian army supported by secessionists, but as Stuart Khoel notes, Russia’s military is just naturally a weak army as evident by recent hostilities. He writes:
“This invasion has probably eaten deeply into Russian operations and maintenance funding, to say nothing of its war reserve stockpiles of ordnance and equipment. Russia must have bet on a short and fairly bloodless war, because it cannot afford–militarily or politically–a protracted slog. Not only doesn’t it have the equipment to do so, but it doesn’t have enough highly trained troops to sustain heavy casualties. The Russian military consists of a small, diamond-hard point on the end of a wooden stick. If the point shatters or wears down, you are left fighting the stick.”
The bigger question is response in the East. Georgia was in line to receive NATO membership. Where is NATO? Why isn’t the United States responding with more than harsh language? It’s not that I believe in any of that, but Russia is playing America politically, learning that NATO, in fact, won’t respond and the United States are basically limted to relief and supplies while still fighting in Afghanistan and policing Iraq.
Neighboring countries are nervous about Russia, seeing that no country stepped up to actually stop the incursion. Ukraine and Poland are two country’s that are worried, but in truth, the entire Baltics should be.
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