U.S. Fighter Jets To Be Stationed In Poland

F-16s

U.S. May Place Fighter Jets in Poland -- Wall Street Journal

WARSAW — President Barack Obama, set to visit Warsaw this month, will announce the details of a move of U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets to Poland from the Aviano Air Base in Italy, the Polish press reports today. If the plan becomes reality, the move will irk Russia and may become a serious test of the quality of the reset in relations between Washington and Moscow, as well as those between Moscow and Warsaw.

It’s a move Poland has long wanted. It isn’t currently threatened by a foreign power, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said in his inaugural speech last year. But the memory of occupation and foreign rule — by the Habsburg empire, Prussia, Russia, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union — at various points between the late 18th century and 1989 lives on in this country, as does the memory of abandonment by European allies when Hitler attacked in 1939, igniting World War II.

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My Comment: So much for all of that talk on resetting U.S. - Russian relations. Expect the Russians to resist.