New U.S. missile base in Poland: Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse

 

The US just officially opened its new Aegis Ashore missile base in Poland (after nine years of construction) to go along with a similar one recently opened in Romania.

These launch platforms (same as what is found on Navy Aegis destroyers built in Bath, Maine) can fire either nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles (the first strike sword) or SM-3 interceptor 'missile defense' systems (the shield). 

According to Simplicius:

This facility has the infamous dual-use MK41 vertical launchers (VLS) which fire the defensive SM-3 missiles, but are also capable of launching long-range nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles, amongst other things. The Rezidkowo base is only 160km from Kaliningrad and within Tomahawks’ range even of Moscow.

Russia’s now-unveiled Oreshnik [hazelnut] is essentially a direct counterweight to the Aegis Ashore.

So the US has created the ability to launch a first-strike with Tomahawk cruise missiles into Russia and the American people know virtually nothing about this 2024 Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse. What does any thinking person expect Russia to do? Imagine if Russia or China built a similar facility in Mexico or Canada - Washington would go ballistic!

As the video above reveals this new US launch facility is now a target. 

 

These kind of intermediate-range missile systems used to be banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. The US pulled out of the treaty in 2019.

The US withdrew from the landmark 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002. That treaty banned missile defense systems. So it is clear that the Pentagon has been developing this offensive strategy for some time to encircle Russia and China with these 'sword and shield' missile systems on the land and at sea using Aegis destroyer platforms.

In July 2024 NATO announced that the US would, starting in 2026, deploy nuclear capable intermediate range missiles in Germany.

Of course this has led Russia and China to develop new missile technologies that could evade and overwhelm the US 'sword and shield' systems as we just witnessed Moscow fire the Oreshnik [hazelnut] missile that hit a vast Ukrainian military production facility in eastern Ukraine.

So the US in effect has created a new nuclear arms race due to its arrogant exceptionalism which moves the world closer and closer to WW3 and possibly nuclear Armageddon.

Bruce