The Kremlin ratchets up its rhetoric against deployment of a missile defense system in Europe (the one the American left says can’t work):
Russia will be forced to make a military response if the U.S.-Czech missile defense agreement is ratified, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. . . Russia says the system would severely undermine European security balances by weakening Russia’s missile capacity.
If the agreement is ratified, “we will be forced to react not with diplomatic, but with military-technical methods,” the Foreign Ministry statement said. It did not give specifics of what the response would entail. . .
The U.S. has pushed the plan as necessary to prevent missile attacks by rogue nations, pointing to Iran as a particular concern. But Russia dismisses the likelihood of such threats.
Speaking of which, in other news:
Iran’s state television says its Revolutionary Guards have tested nine new long- and medium-range missiles in war games that officials say are in response to U.S. and Israeli threats.
Internet Scofflaw 