vanir

Primarily my username, a feature of several networking forums is drawn from some genuine political concerns between western civilisation as we presume it to be and Eastern Europe. Most particularly of late I am severly concerned about matters in Central Asia. The current Iranian debarcle has been making some CIS district commanders nervous about US/NATO intentions in the Black Sea Region, which could very well turn nuclear, only it won't be Iran you need to be worried about. Matters in the Ukraine/Crimean and Transcausasus Strategic District really should be the Pentagon's primary concern at this point, according to international journalists.

Think of the Kremlin as the Vanir, the Pentagon as the Æsir. Those treaties are damn important and they don't include running around the southern and southeast borders of the Caspian Sea. Actual European missile defence treaties are really aimed at the CIS, not Iran.