The Polish Government has showed its displeasure at the US missile defence decision by playing the protocol card:

Prime Minister Tusk refused to take a telephone-call from Hillary Clinton, steering her to talk to her opposite number (ie Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski). Tusk eventually talked to President Obama after initially not taking that call either.

The symbolism of this US announcement – the 70th anniversary of the Soviet attack on Poland under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – is as bad as it possibly can be for Poland, and for Russian smirking.

Anyone remember Smart Diplomacy?