Italy Calls US- E. Europe Missiles Plan "Provocative"

Just as the US thought Russia's establishing Missile sites in Cuba as Not only "Provocative" but TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war until Russia agreed to remove them.

The US plan of establishing Missile Sites in Poland and Czech Republic on Russia's border is Equally as unacceptable, and stupid if as stated their concern is Iran. Why not closer sites in Turkey or Iraq, etc .in addition to those we have just installed in Israel.

Curiously, JFK invoked the "Monroe Doctrine" on August 30, 1962 saying that it means today what it meant to President Monroe that is, that the US opposes all foreign intervention in the Western Hemisphere. If so, is the reverse also true, Non Intervention of US in European Affairs of even Eastern Hemisphere ?

Someone also explain to me why the US fought a CIVIL war to prevent Succession, and yet we are attempting to intervene in Ukraine and Georgia, that are "breakaway" former Russian states?

Italy Criticizes US over E. Europe Missiles Plan

Russia Today

November 13, 2008

Senior Italian politicians have called on Russia and the U.S. to end a row over planned missile deployments. Italy's Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, has appealed to Washington to shelve proposals for an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe.

Meanwhile, PM Silvio Berlusconi has likened the proposed missiles tthe recognition of Kosovo:, and the possibility of Georgian and Ukrainian membership in NATO, ; acts of "provocation against Russia."

In an interview with Italy?s Repubblica newspaper, Frattini said Russia should also show restraint and resist putting missiles in Kaliningrad.

"There is a need to advance the perspective of creating a new world order jointly with Europe, Russia and America," he said.

Frattini says the incoming American administration will be more focused on Asia than the current one, and it will not want a new Cold War with the Russian Federation. That is why, Frattini says, there should be no deployment of the ABM system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

He suggested that Washington should "change the approach" to relations with Russia.

And it wasn?t just the Italian Foreign Minister joining the debate. Speaking during a visit to Turkey, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he believed Russia had a number of reasons to be unhappy.

"Let's speak frankly, Russia was provoked by America's plans to deploy missile defence elements in the Czech Republic and Poland, the recognition of Kosovo and the possibility of Georgian and Ukrainian membership in NATO, " Berlusconi said.

He also called on U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to avoid stepping up confrontation with Russia.

Berlusconi also said confrontations like this could lead to nuclear war.

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