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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Obama Administration Caves to Putin on Missile Shield for Europe

Obama Administration Caves to Putin on Missile Shield for Europe
Buried in the news made late Friday made by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that the U.S. planned to deploy missile interceptors in Alaska and California was the equally important news that the Obama administration was going to stop long-held plans to fully deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

The Pentagon insisted that the change in deployment had nothing to do with trying to assuage Russia and everything with the threat from North Korea, which in recent months has sent a long-range missile into space, detonated a nuclear device, and, last week, sent a barrage of missiles into the Sea of Japan

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