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American missile defense – a threat to Russia?
Published: 09 February, 2010, 22:25
Edited: 26 March, 2010, 19:12
TAGS: Arms, Military, Russia, Politics, USA
Washington's revamped missile defense project is once again becoming a major concern for Russian security. Russian military officials say they view the plans to deploy missiles in Central Europe as a direct threat.
“The development of the missile defense system is targeting Russia,” said chief of the Russian Army General Staff Nikolay Makarov.
“Even though some state officials claim it's aimed at enhancing our security, this is far from being true. We view it very negatively because it might weaken our missile forces,” he added.
It comes as Romania approved a proposal to house elements of the American missile shield following Poland's agreement to host the US Patriot missile system.
The tension between Moscow and Washington is slowing progress on a new nuclear arms reduction deal which has been in negotiations for months.
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I guess Russia will want to factor in the various US missile defense systems when calculating arms reductions. If the US government doesn't want to include their missile defense systems in the equation then they will probably not be able to reach an agreement. Re: Chill "...the United States would probably be the first to give Russia assistance, as when Hitler was trying to take over Russia...." Actually, the USA was brought into WWII by the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declarations of war on the USA by Italy and Germany - over six months after Germany invaded Russia and two years after the fall of France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Roosevelt thought that Britain would capitulate, Europe would be lost and that the USA should look out for her own interests.
I don't understand why US government is denying that it is them who are the greatest threat to the world. Theonly reason that US goes to war is because they are either forced to or profit from it. First world war: german u-boats attacked american trade ships. american's had a huge trade relation with britain and france, so they didnt want these to be destroyed. Second world war: at start US is no where near the dominence, - fact they are in an economic depression (oh what a big suprise!!!), allied powers were buying weapons which were made in US, once again trade is in danger. japan forces a war by a suprise attack... (i want to include the japanise invasion of china, as it was the USSR who was the first nation to help chinese) Korean war - forced attack on a us ally. US abuse their nato powers. Vietnam wars- US worried of communist growths in asia (anti communist crusades) Gulf war 1 - forced war,us ally under atack. Afghan invasion - us stratigic advance against out of control terrorists. Gulf war 2 - bush likes oil. wth, he loves it more than the lives of his own people.