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Poland and the U. S. have decided on a mutual defense alliance.

“We have crossed the Rubicon,” said Poland Prime Minister about the agreement reached with he United States to base American missile interceptors in Poland sending Russia into Low Earth Orbit. The US and Poland says the anti-missile missile system will guard Europe from Iranian missile attack. Russia say it is aimed at it.

“Crossing the Rubicon” is a popular idiom meaning to go past a point of no return and refers to Julius Caesar crossing the river in 49 BC deliberately as an act of war.

Regardless of the historic reference Poland and the U. S. have decided on a mutual defense alliance.

Plus it was an obvious reference to the force and ferocity with which Russia rolled into Georgia in recent days, taking the key city of Gori and apparently burning and destroying Georgian military outposts and airfields. Poland and other former Soviet satellites and republics in eastern Europe have been unsettled by Russia’s powerful and Brutal military attacks on Georgia.

In addition the United States has also reached an agreement with the Czech Republic’s government to place a radar component of the missile defense system in that country. That deal still needs approval from the Czech and Polish parliaments.

Tusk said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would be too slow in coming to Poland’s defense if Poland were threatened and that the bloc would take “days, weeks to start that machinery.”

“Poland and the Poles do not want to be in alliances in which assistance comes at some point later - it is no good when assistance comes to dead people. Poland wants to be in alliances where assistance comes in the very first hours of - knock on wood - any possible conflict,” Tusk said.