According to Fox News, President Obama will scrap the ballistic missile defense shield in Europe.
European reaction is mixed. Russia applauds the policy change; Poland and the Czech Republic are relieved not to be targets, but have based much of their future security policy on getting the missile defenses from the United States.
The immediate reaction in the US from the left is that the change "makes strategic sense;" from the right, the reaction appears to be that “[t]his represents a complete capitulation to Russia's Vladimir Putin, who had demanded that the proposed deployments be halted as a price for improved relations.” Instapundit put it this way: ”It really is like Jimmy Carter all over again. Well, actually that’s looking like a best-case scenario these days.”
I doubt it’s as bad as the right's position makes it to be, since the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) is in fact still a developmental system, but the “sell-out” image does leave a bad taste.
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