The sooner, the better, too, and make it broader.
The US is considering deploying Patriot surface-to-air missiles in Estonia, US Vice President Mike Pence told Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas on Sunday.
“We spoke about it today, but we didn’t talk about a date or time,” Ratas told state broadcaster ERR after the meeting.
This would be excellent. We also should talk Estonia about deploying THAAD and ABM systems there. And then we should deploy all three.
And put systems in Poland and Czech Republic, if they’ll have them after ex-President Barack Obama (D) suddenly cancelled the missile defense systems we were going to set up there. And put systems in Ukraine.
That’s just for Russia’s benefit. We also should plus up the missile defense systems deployed in the Republic of Korea (if President Moon Jae-in finally can recognize the threats of northern Korea and the People’s Republic of China) and in Japan. We also should talk to Australia, the Republic of China, and Vietnam about missile defense deployments there. And India.
I see in today’s WSJ that India and China are going to join together for a counter-One Belt, One Road. Hope they succeed ….
Interesting that the PRC would work against its own OBOR. Do you have a URL to the article?
Eric Hines
My bad – and I can’t find the article now, but here’s another. It’s India and Japan, countering China.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/ignoring-obor-india-and-japan-forge-ahead-with-joint-connectivity-project/articleshow/59830218.cms
Here’s where I saw the news (retweeted by Wretchard): https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/892248530995343360
There’s another interesting aspect to the Japan-India partnership, if it comes to fruition: the two nations sit on opposite ends of the Outer Island Barrier (even if India is somewhat removed from its end) that the PRC wants to use to protect itself and its occupied South China Sea.
Be too bad if something happened to the PRC’s sea wall….
Eric Hines