Another Cuban Missile Crisis?

By Yelena Biberman Russia Profile Experts suggest Russia to go sober over defense shield The U.S. says the missile defense shield in East-Central Europe will protect “allies and friends” from rogue states, while reassuring no repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia, however, does not buy into what the U.S. is saying. According to experts and analysts, Russia can justly reciprocate U.S. actions by making some of its own decisions. The U.S. proposal to build a missile defense shield in Eastern and Central Europe will create a situation similar to the Cuban missile crisis, former President Vladimir Putin said in October of last year. U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack immediately shook off the comparison, saying that there were “clear historical differences between our plans to deploy a defensive missile system,... [read full story]