{"id":3604,"date":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/us-missile-defence-move-criticised-by-cnd\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","slug":"us-missile-defence-move-criticised-by-cnd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/02\/us-missile-defence-move-criticised-by-cnd\/","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;MISSILE DEFENCE&#8217; MOVE CRITICISED BY CND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Press Release &#8211; Feb 4, 2010<br \/><\/em>&nbsp;<br \/>The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament regrets moves towards the establishment of a US interceptor missile base in Romania , announced only days after plans emerged to site Patriot batteries in four Gulf states . CND criticised the move as part of a deepening entrenchment of US forces in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Hudson, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said &quot;President Obama&#8217;s reconfiguration of plans for the Czech Republic and Poland allowed the &#8216;reset&#8217; of relations with Russia . But deploying an ever-greater number of military systems across eastern Europe does nothing to help the US and Russia conclude a successor to the START disarmament treaty. Nor does it help make Europe safer. The suggestion that Aegis missile defence ships may patrol the Baltic and the Black Sea and that a Ukrainian radar may be used in the system, means there is a real risk that the thawing of US-Russian relations will be sent off-course. The US move to make permanent a temporary military base in Romania &#8211; and continued efforts to expand NATO &#8211; all serve to push Europe towards more military spending when it is completely unnecessary and we can ill afford it.&quot;<br \/><em><br \/>Submitted to TMS by email.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release &#8211; Feb 4, 2010&nbsp;The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament regrets moves towards the establishment of a US interceptor missile base in Romania , announced only days after plans emerged to site Patriot batteries in four Gulf states . CND criticised the move as part of a deepening entrenchment of US forces in the region. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}