Years of disputes over a US missile defense system being built along the Russian frontier with the EU have gone unresolved, and the Russian government has followed through with a retaliatory deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to the area near the border.
The issue of US missile defense was shrugged off in the START treaty, and Russia has for years said that if it wasn’t eventually resolved they’d have to put more Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad to shore up their retaliatory capabilities.
The US insists that the missile defense system isn’t targeted at Russia, and condemned Russia today for “destabilizing” the region with the new deployment.
At the same time, the defense system is built provocatively close to Russia and despite nominally targeting Iran, is outside the range of Iranian missiles. The deployments don’t violate existing treaties on force limits in Europe, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
The interceptors being placed in eastern Europe by the US are to target Russia not Iran. Anyone with access to a map can see that. Iran has no nukes or missiles that can hit eastern Europe and even if they did why would they just start firing missiles at Europe???
Putin and the Russian government know who the REAL target is and they aren't going to sit by idle while NATO attempts to neuter their nuclear deterrent. Those Iskanders, though ballistic missiles intended for use on the battlefield, can be armed with a single 150-350kt nuclear warhead if necessary. They are also satellite guided and made to evade interception.
With missiles on 32 ships in the Mediterranean Sea, in Romania and Poland the US will get a Disarming First Strike Capability by 2018. Of course, this leads to Launch On Warning by 2017 and Suicide. GPS (NAVSTAR) was made to hit Russian missile silos accurately. According to missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Bob Aldridge: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." A clue to the real extent of their madness: The MX missile was cancelled. But the warhead was put on Minuteman-3 because that warhead like the D5 on Trident-2 is designed to minimize nuclear winter effects if used against missile silos.
Yes, truly madness, especially when one considers they have proven over and over again that, even if the US were the only nuclear armed state, they are incapable of controlling the people of the world in widespread guerrilla warfare.