Coming from Mother Russia this, sadly, doesn’t surprise me one bit.

Russia’s top military officer warned Thursday that Moscow would strike NATO missile-defense sites in Eastern Europe before they are ready for action, if the U.S. pushes ahead with deployment.

“A decision to use destructive force pre-emptively will be taken if the situation worsens,” Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov said at an international missile-defense conference in Moscow attended by senior U.S. and NATO officials.

Wouldn’t that be just great (facetiousness here) if we ended up having WW III with Russia after all, years after communism has officially bit the dust over there, while the fundamental Muslims sat back grinning, watching their two main enemies duke it out, waiting to punce on what could only be a badly damaged and weakened winner?

This part kind of jumps out at you. Remember this?

In March, Mr. Obama privately told outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more “flexibility” to make a deal on missile defense after the election in November. Mr. Obama’s comment was captured accidentally by a live microphone during a summit in Seoul.

Many critics interpreted the remark as a promise by Mr. Obama to give in to Russian demands once the political danger of doing so during an election campaign had passed.

The article is here.