Russia Warns United States of America
Posted by USHOSTAGE at 9/3/2008 10:55 AM 
Categories: Pentagon blog, USD Law, AIPAC, uscourts.gov, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Categories: Pentagon blog, USD Law, AIPAC, uscourts.gov, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
| Russia warns US over missile deal September 3, 2008 presstv.ir | |
"If the decision to deploy missile interceptors is made, if the radar is switched on, we will have to respond to that because we haven't received any reasonable explanation why it's being done," Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Italian RAI television broadcast Tuesday without specifying what the response would entail. The US is planning to install a tracking radar system in Czech soil, twinned with interceptor missiles in neighboring Poland, under the pretext of protecting US and Europe from potential missile attacks from the Middle East, including Iran. Medvedev dismissed the likelihood of such threats, stressing that the defense shields "won't help security in Europe". Russia insists that US missile shield plan clearly seeks to weaken Russia. After a year and a half of negotiations, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski signed a deal in August for siting 10 missile interceptors in Poland within a distance of just 115 miles from Russia's western frontier. The talks were recently stalled by Poland's demand for US Patriot missiles to protect it from short-range missiles from Russia. Washington gave in after Poland used the Georgia conflict to justify its need for higher security. Russia enraged by the signing of the deal, warned that it might attack the former Soviet satellite. Analysts say Russia fears not only a potential long-term threat to its own nuclear deterrent and airspace security, but that it is also wary of NATO's prospective enlargement plan to include the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Georgia. FF/BGH |
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| Putin warns against NATO navy boost September 2, 2008 presstv.ir | |
“The reaction will be calm, without any sort of hysteria. But of course, there will be an answer,” Interfax quoted Putin as saying on Tuesday. Putin, who is currently in Uzbekistan on an official trip, did not elaborate on what measures Russia would take. A Foreign Ministry official says two US warships, the Polish frigate General Pulaski, the German frigate FGS Lubeck, and the Spanish navy ship Admiral Juan de Borbon, are currently operating in the Black Sea. Moscow believes NATO countries are using humanitarian aid as cover for a build-up of Western naval forces in the strategic waters. "Under the cover of needing to deliver humanitarian goods, NATO countries continue to boost their naval grouping," Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of general staff, said last Saturday in reply to a Pentagon statement. The United States, however, insists that the US ships, led by the destroyer USS McFaul, headed for Georgia for deliveries of humanitarian. Last week, Russia said it was monitoring the build-up of NATO warships, but had no plans to reinforce its fleet in the region. ZHD/DT |
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