Russia: No more Mr. Nice Guy
General Nikolai Solovtsov is in charge of Russia's missile arsenal. He said that if Bush puts missiles in Poland, plus the radar site in the Czech Republic, then, "I do not exclude them as targets for Russian missiles.”
Bush says the missiles are to defend against “rogue states,” such as Iran.
Gen Solovtsov says Bush is a liar. He says the USA is determined to militarily surround Russia.
"If the Americans signed a treaty with us that they would only deploy 10 anti-missile rockets in Poland, and one radar in the Czech Republic, and will never put anything else there, then we could deal with that," Solovtsov said. "However the USA refuses to sign any treaty. They just tell us verbally, 'We won't threaten you'. They also told us verbally that when Germany was reunited, there wouldn’t be one U.S. soldier in Germany -- but soldiers are still there. They already cheated Russia once."
Another Russian general -- Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov -- said, “We've been tolerant, and we've been suggesting compromise options, but we won't do that unilaterally any more.”
Deputy Prime MinisterSergei Ivanov has called for new upgrades of Russia’s ballistic missiles. "The weak are not loved and not heard. They are insulted. When we have parity, they talk to us in a different way."
Russia is modernizing all of its armed forces, and has announced plans to commission six or seven of its ultra-modern Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles each year. The Topol-M carries up to six warheads, and can penetrate America’s most sophisticated defense systems.
Russia also announced it will pull out of one Cold War treaty limiting the build-up of conventional weapons, and has signaled that it could withdraw from another treaty that forbids European countries from building intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
Russia also wants an extension of the 2002 Treaty of Moscow, which requires the US and Russia to cut their arsenals to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads by 2012. Russia wants each side to have only 1,500 warheads, but Washington refuses.
The Russian military went into decline after the USSR collapsed, but now Russia is conducting more and more war games in the Atlantic Ocean and elsewhere. Russia’s defense budget has almost quadrupled in the past six years, and the Kremlin has announced it will spend $ 50 billion on building new ships.
On Monday 17 Dec 07, Russia test-launched a missile from the RFS K-114 Tula nuclear-powered submarine in the Barents Sea in the Arctic. The Tula is a Delfin-class submarine (NATO code name Delta-IV). The dummy warhead hit a designated area in the Kura testing ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia's Pacific coast. The missile, launched from underwater, is believed to be one of Russia’s new R-29RM Sineva missiles (NATO code name SS-N-23 Scythian) that entered serviced in June 2007. These are 5,500-mile ranged SLBMs with four nuclear warheads each. Russia usually has about seventeen SLBM subs on patrol at any one time, plus regular attack subs.
Russia also says it is adjusting its military plans to meet any threat by the missiles in Poland.
This week Russia announced that it will begin supplying 80 tons of uranium for Iran's nuclear reactor in the port city of Bushehr. An editorial in today’s Wall Street Urinal suggests that the Bushehr reactor should be bombed the same way Israel bombed the Osirak reactor in Iraq in June 1981.
One reason why Russia is doing all this is to send a message to Poland’s new Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who took office on 16 November. Tusk is on the fence about Bush’s missiles. His predecessor Jaroslaw Kaczynski wanted the missiles, and was very cozy with Israel and the U.S. neocons. The Baltimore Jewish Times called Kaczynski a, “fierce defender of Israeli interests in the European Union.” (Kaczynski’s identical twin brother Lech has now become president.)
Poland has 900 troops in Iraq. They lead a 2,000-troop contingent from ten nations. Tusk, the new Prime Minister, says he wants Polish troops out of Iraq by next year. (Strangely, he said he does not plan to remove Poland’s 1,200 troops from Afghanistan.)
The current ruling party, the “League of Polish Families,” have attributed Poland’s involvement in the Iraq war to Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s closeness with Israel. ZGWZ -- the main Jewish umbrella organization in Poland – screams that such charges are “anti-Semitic."
Catholic Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, 62, allegedly called the Polish president Lech Kaczynski a "swindler" who had bowed to pressure from the Jewish lobby to pay “holocaust” reparations. The Wiesenthal Center called this charge “Outrageous!”
Read this typical MSM propaganda:
"Russia has threatened to target two proposed American bases in Europe with its nuclear missiles if the Pentagon pressed ahead with its plans for a missile defence shield".
What it says is that when Pentagon places its rockets on Russia's borders it is in the interest of defense and world peace, but when Russia thinks about taking defensive action it is a threat!
It is as logical as an armed intruder in a university or shopping centre feeling threatened by potential targets ducking into safety!
..cold war, hot, economic or whatever; is a game played by losers who want everyone else to lose too.