Russia's Foreign Ministry says the system is aimed against the country's intercontinental ballistic missiles. Medvedev in August vowed a ``military response'' if the shield goes ahead.
The U.S. may soften its position on the missile shield, though this became more difficult when Poland agreed in August to host 10 U.S. interceptor missiles, said Nina Khrushcheva, an associate professor at The New School for General Studies in New York and great-granddaughter of the late Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev.
``Obama, unlike McCain, has the potential to start a new, less-militant conversation with the Russians,'' she said by e- mail. ``But this change can't happen unless Russia also becomes less stubborn.''
What's really going on: Now Putin wants to place missiles on the EU border with targets in Europe to gain leverage on his new oil market. Certainly Obama will fold up and walk away. Obama will probably ignore a takeover of Taiwan as well as surrender of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the Reds.....
