Russia Warns America ‘We Will Respond With Nukes’
Deputy PM says Moscow “preparing a response” to U.S. plans for
missile shield in Europe
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 11, 2013
Infowars.com
December 11, 2013
Addressing the threat posed by plans by the United
States to install a missile defense system in Europe, Russia’s Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Rogozin today asserted that Russia would respond with nuclear
weapons if it was targeted by conventional American missiles.
Rogozin’s comments arrive just a day after President Vladimir Putin called on Russia to
upgrade its weapons systems in order to repel U.S. plans to institute the EPAA
missile shield in Europe, which is ostensibly designed to counter Iran’s nuclear
build-up yet is also firmly pointed at Russia.
Asserting that Russia was “preparing a response” to
the U.S. missile defense system, Rogozin warned, “They may experiment with
conventional weapons on strategic delivery platforms, but they must bear in
mind, that if we are attacked, in certain circumstances we will of course
respond with nuclear weapons.”
The Obama White House has refused to mothball plans
for the missile defense shield despite the Bush administration initially
signaling it would be scrapped. Although Washington has indicated it will
abandon long range missiles, medium-range interceptors will be installed in
Redzikowo, Poland by 2018.
Moscow still fears that NATO powers are using Iran as
a camouflage for the true target of the missiles – Russia’s strategic nuclear
forces.
Russia has itself been working on new Yars (SS-29)
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that have the capability of penetrating U.S.
missile defenses and are set to be added to Moscow’s nuclear arsenal next
year.
Russia is currently engaged in the largest military
build-up since the cold war, including the development of a new missile defense
radar in southern and western Russia designed to counter missiles launched from
Europe, as part of maneuvers which pose, “a strategic threat to the United
States and NATO allies,” according to US military officials.
Earlier this summer, Russia staged its biggest military exercise since the cold war in
order to ascertain the readiness of putting intercontinental ballistic missiles
on “high-alert” within a short time frame.
The drill was swiftly followed by NATO’s biggest drill since the cold war, an
exercise that was based around NATO’s response to a simulated invasion of Poland
by a “foreign power.”
The two drills coincided with Japanese fighters being
forced to intercept Russian bombers that were practicing attacks on
U.S. bases in the western Pacific.
A heightening of tensions between the U.S. and Russia
would dovetail with the threat of a new arms race in Asia between Japan
and China in response to the crisis surrounding the disputed Senkaku
Islands.
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This article was posted:
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 11:02 am
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