As world swoons, Russia escalates

Welcome to the real world, Obama.

PM Medvedev announces that Russia will act immediately to put Iskander missiles deep within the west, in its Kaliningrad enclave that is located on Poland's Baltic shore.

No word as to whether the missiles will have nukes. Or when we can expect a Russian lightning strike to take back Crimea and its naval base from Ukraine.

While the US press sleeps, The London Times pays attention to that part of the world that understands and respects only power-- ie, the world that lies to the east of the postmodern EU:

"Medvedev announced that Russia would base Iskander missiles in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad next to the border with Poland.

He did not say whether the short-range missiles would carry nuclear warheads. Mr Medvedev also cancelled earlier plans to withdraw three intercontinental ballistic missile regiments from western Russia.

"An Iskander missile system will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region to neutralise if necessary the anti-ballistic missile system in Europe," Mr Medvedev said in his first state-of-the-nation address.

He added that Russia was also ready to deploy its navy and to install electronic jamming devices to interfere with the US shield, which involves the deployment of a radar station in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in Poland.

His announcement prompted a burst of applause from government ministers and parliamentary deputies assembled in the Kremlin. The President failed to congratulate Mr Obama or even to mention him by name during his 85-minute state of the nation address televised live across Russia...."