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Some say that it's a good short-term move, because short- and medium-range missiles are more of a threat and, in any event, the long-range missile defense wouldn't be necessary for years anyway. Of course, the justification for scrapping it was that there's no imminent threat (that's not predicted to occur until 2012-2014), but since there's no imminent system and no imminent construction it's not like anybody was arguing there was much 'imminent' (except deployment of short-range missiles to Kaliningrad).
Of course, what Popovkin gave another official took away, saying there was no determination as to whether they'd not they'd redeploy missiles the unyet deployed missiles away from Poland's borders.
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