They’re baaaaaaaaack!  The Soviets that is. Or at least the Russians trying their best to sound like those nasty old comrades from the former Soviet Union.

Russia says, “If the real deployment of an American strategic missile defense shield begins close to our borders, then we will be forced to react not with diplomatic methods, but with military-technical methods.”

Whatever the hell that means?

The hot rhetoric from Russian’s red age is all because of a new U.S. treaty that would erect a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic.

The U.S. says it is needed to protect against possible threats from the Middle East—make that Iran.

But the Russians don’t seem to be buying that. They view this as another attempt by the U.S. to gain influence in the region at Russia’s expense.

This is one to watch and one to find out what both Barack Obama and John McCain think about it?