soviet made fighters still serve as a reminder of the fact that poland was once a member of the warsaw pact an organization formed off to world war two by the u.s. as in response to nato. the old warplanes will be scrapped by the u.s. troops who arrive here shortly they'll be bringing missiles with them. local residents have already been told that they won't be getting any compensation for having the new arsenal placed so close to their homes. and we're not overjoyed at the prospect of these weapons being deployed a few hundred metres from our homes. you've got the missiles will pose a threat to the local population of over one thousand people. elizabeth a demand sca a schoolteacher came to reject a book from warsaw a long time ago she knows only too well what the villages think about the military installation. that means the most noise about it is most of the people even here are farmers. and of course they were very warm it's an absolute hearing news of deployment for the time being though the basin we. waste. but even first graders in the village of logic of a are aware of the military b

since the dissolution of the warsaw pact, wisdom statesmen found it difficult to give nato a clear one. they have shilly-shallied on four major questions facing their lives. should russia be regarded as a potential threat or partner? russia may be about to answer that in clearer fashion than we would like. should nato turn its attention to out of area where most of the post cold war threats such as nuclear proliferation now lie. should nato admit the new democracies of central europe as full members with full responsibilities as quickly as prudently as possible? should europe develop its own defense identity in nato even though this is a concept driven entirely by politics and has damaging military implications. such questions tend to be decided not in the abstract, not at intergovernmental conferences convened to look into the crystal ball, but on the anvil of necessity and in the heat of crisis. that is exactly what happened in the long-running crisis over bosnia. at first, the supporters of the european foreign policy and the european defense identity declared the former yugoslavia