The U.S. wants to build "missile defense" positions in Poland and Czechia. Moscow is not amused.
The Russians argue:
- There is no missile threat from Iran or North Korea to the U.S. or Europe and it is unlikely that there will ever be such.
- The positioning of a defense against it in Poland does not make any geographic sense as it is outside of the flight path of the assumed threat.
- The U.S. "missile defense" has never functioned so far. It is not usefull for real missile defense.
- This is a ruse to install a first-strike capacity against Russia. A ballistic missile attack from Poland on Russia would leave Russia only some three minutes of reaction time. A political and military decapitation of Russia would thereby become possible.
Russia’s President Putin now considers to pull out of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. This could start a new arms-race no NATO country but the U.S. wants.
Sec State Rice is miffed:
“These are treaty obligations, and everyone is expected to live up to treaty obligations,” she said.
But back in 2001 the Bush administration unilaterally pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty which prohibits any missile defense. Then Rice said:
So our view is, the treaty is a problem. We need to find ways to get beyond that treaty. It is not appropriate for the current environment, …
To counter the U.S. hypocrisy Putin should consider to travel to Havana.
There is an urgent need to immediately build up Russian "missile defense" stations in Cuba to deter the ever growing threat of a missile attacks on Moscow by the rogue state of Nicaragua.