American missile defense plans hit a snag in Europe - by Richard Weitz
The debate between the United States and Russia over Washington's plans to deploy ballistic missile defenses in Europe is heating up again. Persistent differences with Poland over its conditions for accepting defensive interceptor missiles have led American officials to hint that they might consider Lithuania as an alternative deployment site. This shift appears aimed at pressuring Poland into showing greater flexibility in the negotiations, but the idea of the US establishing military bases in a country once part of the Soviet Union has raised the Kremlin's ire.
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