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Russia Again Offering A Deal To Obama: Kill U.S.-European Missile Defense Plan, And Russia Won’t Deploy Iskander Missiles

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Monday, February 2nd, 2009

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Russians Think Obama Could Kill Planned European Missile Defense Without Seeming To Cave To Moscow Russia, testing the newly-inaugurated U.S. President Obama, has anew offered a deal: if the United States caves and abandons plans to build a European Missile Defense (EMD) system, Russia won't continue its threatened move to deploy Iskander missiles near Poland, the official Chinese Xinhua News agency reported. For years, Russia vehemently opposed U.S. plans to install the EMD, with a radar in the Czech Republic…

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