A new era for the United States and Russia?

Russia's defense ministry on Saturday announced to the local media that it is dropping plans to deploy missiles in the border with Eastern Europe to face a U.S. anti-missile battery, which had been scrapped.

The decision to not deploy Iskander short-range missiles in the Kaliningrad region was in response to U.S. President Barack Obama's cancellation Thursday of a Central Europe missile defense system to be deployed in the Czech Republic and Poland, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said over Ekho Moskvy Radio. The U.S. missile defense batteries aim to shoot down long-range ballistic missiles coming from Iran.

Russia had opposed the U.S. missile defense system plan proposed by former President George W. Bush with the aim of protecting NATO allies in Europe and viewed it as a threat to the communist country.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Almost half Poland's population supports a U.S. decision to scrap a planned anti-missile system partly based on their soil, a survey published on Saturday showed.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he was scrapping Bush-era plans to build missile interceptors in Poland and a radar site in the Czech Republic, and instead proposed more flexible defense systems to protect against Iran.

The survey published in the daily Rzeczpospolita by polling firm GFK showed 48 percent of Poles believed the decision was good for Poland, while 31 percent had the opposite view.

A total of 58 percent said the move would have no impact on Poland's security.

Political analysts say the economy is a far bigger priority than missile defense for Polish and Czech voters.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's center-right, pro-EU government never embraced missile defense as keenly as its more conservative predecessor led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski which it ousted in 2007.

When asked how they interpreted Obama's decision, 40 percent of Poles in the survey said it was a concession to Russia.

Russia had fiercely opposed plans to deploy the shield in a region it had dominated until the fall of communism in 1989.

It's a good beginning.

Very interested to see how this goes... Russia has expressed interest in deploying troops in Afghanistan. I wonder if this is related somehow.

He wants to link up our defenses with Putin? Putin, the former KGB agent? Is he insane?

The beginning of a new era? If so, let it be peace.

This is nice and all but won't a nuke hidden in a cargo ship circumvent this expensive system? Our inability to detect a hidden nuclear weapon amid the millions of tons of cargo moved around the world makes this all a moot point to determined attackers.

Let's see I could spend millions building and deploying a missile system that my enemies can allegedly shoot down or I can spend a fraction of that money bribing the right people to smuggle my package of "drugs" shielded in lead wherever I want it. Scientific American recently did an article on the absolute short comings of our nuclear detection ability. They regularly shipped material with a greater isotopic signature than a atomic/nuclear weapon without detection.

The Future is going to be a scary place so bring a change of underwear.

NWO here we come.

We should pull out of NATO.

Excelent idea, samthesixth, especially if the CIA is dismantled at the same time and the US ceases its endless string of wars of aggression and pillage around the world.

Great effort from both sides, i just hope the outcome is a great missile defence system aimed at peace, and not used for terrorizing our enemies.