Teresita:

“Russia is giving up on trying to maintain conventional parity with the US and banking everything on maintaining a nuclear arsenal to threaten people with. Very stupid. First use of even a single tactical nuke against the US or our interests will result in a rapidly escalating atomic tit-for-tat which could well result in a full nuclear exchange, while with conventional forces the US can do everything from regime change in Iraq to throwing out a full-scale invasion of Kuwait. Its the difference between a garage full of different power tools, and another one with nothing but dynamite.”

I like your analogy. It is for this reason that I believe that the US is the greatest country to ever grace this world. With its so called ‘power tools’, the US has the ability to help build a stable foundation for the disenfranchised, or defend their freedom if need be, while Russia’s capabilities are limited to scaring its neighbours into compliance, and extortion. Poland may not have all of the necessary tools, but due to its rather unfortunate history, it is more then willing to get its hands dirty in working together with nations, like the US, that have the material tools and will to uphold liberty and justice. I wish the same could be said for the rest of Europe, but unfortunetly that doesn’t seem to be the case. It looks like they’d rather live on their knees than die standing.