BERLIN, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Poland and the Czech Republic are both likely agree to U.S. anti-missile installations on their territory, despite the controversy involved. ...
For many observers, the rift with Russia that has been created is the system's biggest problem. When NATO planned its expansion into the East, it had guaranteed Russia it would not station any important military capacities on the new members' territory for the long-term, Nassauer said.
Now Moscow feels justly betrayed, he added, "because the Americans are right now breaking this promise."
(Ottfried Nassauer, head of the Information Center for Transatlantic Security, a Berlin-based think tank)
United Press International - Intl. Intelligence - Analysis: Poles, Czechs for U.S. missiles
Agreements between the strong and the weak are usually not worth the paper they are written on because the strong can always break the agreements without much fear of what the other will do.
Perhaps the only thing Russia can and probably will do is help some of the enemies of the West in order to split West's military resources by creating several fronts than need to be defended and thus decrease the threat to themselves.