Russia to link missile defense in Europe with nuclear arms treaty

Russia to link missile defense in Europe with nuclear arms treaty

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Moscow has been at loggerheads with Washington over plans to deploy a missile defense system in Central Europe. The United States has signed agreements with the Czech Republic on hosting a radar station and with Poland on the deployment of 10 interceptor missiles by 2013.

Russia says the missile shield would be a threat to its national security while the United States has argued it is necessary to guard against the threat of missile attacks from states such as Iran.

Considering that the current nuclear arms reduction treaty expires this year, Moscow is ready to return to this issue and

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I am just astounded that PM Putin this Sunday claimed, and i quote:

"One needn't be an expert to understand: if one party wants or would have an umbrella against all kinds of threats, this party would develop an illusion that it is allowed to do anything and then the aggressiveness of its actions will increase numerously, and the threat of global confrontation will reach a very dangerous level," Putin said in an interview with Japanese media on the eve of his visit to Japan.

After what Russia did this past winter with them cutting off the gas which was needed to keep warm millions of people in several European, and former Soviet states during winter, this is what Putin claims? and people take his claims seriously?

Anyway, it will be interesting to see what comes about with the new nuclear arms reduction treaty which would be held in Moscow on May 18-20.




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[edit on 11-5-2009 by ElectricUniverse]