Patriots on the Russian border

Independent:

A battery of Patriot missiles has arrived in Poland, along with dozens of American soldiers who will spend the next two years teaching the Polish military to operate the advanced guided-missile system

at a base just a few miles from the Russian border.

Though Russia had expressed its strong opposition to having a US military installation close to its border, there was no initial reaction from Moscow to the arrival of the missiles – perhaps an indication that it wants to play down the matter after failing to stop the deployment.

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The Patriot garrison was a Polish condition for a 2008 deal with Washington

to host a long-range missile defence base meant to protect the US and Europe from Iranian attacks. That plan, developed and negotiated by the Bush administration, angered Russia and was later reconfigured by President Barack Obama. Mr Bush's envisioned missile defence interceptors were separate from the Patriot missiles, which have a shorter range and have not provoked Russian anger as greatly as the missile defence plan had.

The Obama administration backed out of the missile defense system these missiles were supposed to protect. The are basically a defense against short range missiles that the Russians threaten to use to attack the missile defense system the US was to install.

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