U.S. scraps key European missile defense component

Hagel told the press on Friday that the decision was made as part of an overall restructuring of the country's missile defense plans, with an eye to stopping perceived threats from Iran and North Korea, Russia Today has reported.

B92

This guy is either totally delusional or he's just taking the piss of his audience.
To start with Obama & Hagel are not idiots and they knew these missiles were never intended to act as a deterrent against Iran or North Korea but instead acted as threat to Russia and used in order to get concessions from Russia on geopolitical matters.

I think the change of US policy is due partly to the fact that those defence missiles which planed to install on the Russian borders,,having already spent $billions in its development were found to be defective when tested.The other reason for the cancellation is the acute financial constraints.Simply they are skint!

I am also of the opinion that North Korea is just used as a bogeyman and the real prize is the potential hostilities between China and Japan over the disputed islands.

“restructuring of the program”

Here are some more of the same:
structural adjustment to fiscal expenditure; right sizing; downsizing, re-aligning to meet core business needs; readjustment of key priorities; containment of fiscal disbursement within planned budgetary allocation. I can go on for pages, but they all mean one thing – the money has run out.
This relocating missiles to Alaska is a smoke screen. Alaska is not the place to contain Russia nor is North Korea a threat to the US. North Korea needs about 100 missile launches to make a successful attack on the US. They have between 5 or10 at best.
Yes the US is waiting for the China/Japan dispute over some islands to bubble over. These islands are nothing to go by but it’s the oil and gas around them that is so valuable. The Chinese have already finished a dispute with the Philippines and now it’s time to settle some old score with Japan.
The Chinese will win. The US military industrial complexes are making weapons that are fantastic on papers, but mediocre on the battlefield. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan – what have the Americans shown the world in leading weaponry? Nothing at all.
The Chinese are ready for this fight and they already have enormous reserves in gold; some the US is aware of, but others they are not. So if the Us becomes too much of a pain in the rear, Bejing wil pull the plug on Washington and allow teh US economy to implode.

Hagel told the press on Friday that the decision was made as part of an overall restructuring of the country's missile defense plans, with an eye to stopping perceived threats from Iran and North Korea, Russia Today has reported.

B92

This guy is either totally delusional or he's just taking the piss of his audience.
To start with Obama & Hagel are not idiots and they knew these missiles were never intended to act as a deterrent against Iran or North Korea but instead acted as threat to Russia and used in order to get concessions from Russia on geopolitical matters.

I think the change of US policy is due partly to the fact that those defence missiles which planed to install on the Russian borders,,having already spent $billions in its development were found to be defective when tested.The other reason for the cancellation is the acute financial constraints.Simply they are skint!

I am also of the opinion that North Korea is just used as a bogeyman and the real prize is the potential hostilities between China and Japan over the disputed islands.

“restructuring of the program”

Here are some more of the same:
structural adjustment to fiscal expenditure; right sizing; downsizing, re-aligning to meet core business needs; readjustment of key priorities; containment of fiscal disbursement within planned budgetary allocation. I can go on for pages, but they all mean one thing – the money has run out.
This relocating missiles to Alaska is a smoke screen. Alaska is not the place to contain Russia nor is North Korea a threat to the US. North Korea needs about 100 missile launches to make a successful attack on the US. They have between 5 or10 at best.
Yes the US is waiting for the China/Japan dispute over some islands to bubble over. These islands are nothing to go by but it’s the oil and gas around them that is so valuable. The Chinese have already finished a dispute with the Philippines and now it’s time to settle some old score with Japan.
The Chinese will win. The US military industrial complexes are making weapons that are fantastic on papers, but mediocre on the battlefield. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan – what have the Americans shown the world in leading weaponry? Nothing at all.
The Chinese are ready for this fight and they already have enormous reserves in gold; some the US is aware of, but others they are not. So if the Us becomes too much of a pain in the rear, Bejing wil pull the plug on Washington and allow teh US economy to implode.