by Admin
Nov 13, 2024
The United States will declare the opening of a new military missile base in Poland today. The missile base which is located in Redzikowo, Northwestern Poland, and close to the Baltic Sea is set to be a permanent missile military base which is close to the Russian border.
Redzikowo is located 100 miles from Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, a town in which Russia has a powerful military presence that now stands between NATO members Poland and Lithuania.
The missile base, which is named Aegis Ashore, stands as a vital part of NATO’s broader missile defense shield which is designed to intercept short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
The missile system includes another Aegis Ashore site in Romania, a United States Navy destroyer based in Spain’s Rota dock, and an early-warning radar station in Turkey’s Kurecik.
The inauguration of the missile base was announced by Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister who disclosed this on his official page in a video posted to X on Tuesday.
He revealed that the military project stands as a show of the “geostrategic consistency of the United States… and a relationship of the Polish-American alliance is strong, regardless of who governs in Warsaw and Washington.”
The missile base is the first United States base in Central Europe and was started by former President George Bush’s administration which was continued by former President Barack Obama’s administration and was finished by President Joe Biden.
The inauguration of the Redzikowo missile base comes during a time when most NATO members are concerned about Donald Trump’s past remarks, which indicated that the United States might not defend NATO allies who fail to meet defense spending targets.
Moscow and Belarus have condemned the opening of the missile base and have termed it a threat to their national security.
However, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the Polish Defense minister has dismissed Moscow and Belarus’s claim that the missile shield stands as a threat to Russia and Belarus, he further said “We will discuss this expansion with NATO and the United States”.
Mark Rutte, the NATO Secretary-General is set to meet Polish President Andrzej Duda and his Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw after the inauguration of the missile base to discuss a further strategy for the expansion of NATO security strategy.