Don't panic!

Russia is celebrating US President Barack Obama's decision not to build a missile shield in Central Eastern Europe as a victory over the US. That alone is enough to compound the sense of menace from a potential Iranian missile attack in Eastern Europe, the daily Diena writes: "The way the decision was announced was admittedly very unfortunate: Obama made a midnight phone call to the Czech prime minister on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's attack on Poland that followed the Hitler-Stalin Pact and just a few days before the planned meeting of the presidents of Russia and the US in New York. And Moscow is naturally doing everything in its power to convey the impression that there were was a secret agreement between them. … But it would be foolish to panic and accuse the US of betrayal or even selling off Eastern Europe: Europe's security is an integral component of transatlantic security policy. The US won't shoot itself in the foot by leaving Eastern Europe at the mercy of neo-imperialist Russia."

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