General Says Russia Will Counter U.S. Missile Defence Plans Without Shield

Source: Agence France-Presse

MOSCOW — A top Russian general warned on Tuesday that the military will take the necessary countermeasures in response to U.S. missile defence plans, but added that Moscow has no intention to develop a similar missile shield.

Lt. Gen. Yevgeny Buzhinsky said that Russia appreciated U.S. proposals intended to soothe Russian concerns, but said they were not enough to change Moscow's perception that the U.S. system would undermine its security.

Washington has promised to delay activating the planned new sites in Poland and the Czech Republic unless Iran proves itself an imminent threat to Europe. It also offered to let Russian officers monitor the sites to make sure they are not directed against Russia.

"We welcome these proposals as a step in the right direction, the acknowledgement that the Russian concerns are well-grounded," Buzhinsky, who heads the Russian Defence Ministry's international cooperation department, said at a news conference. "But the United States needs to abandon its plans to deploy missile defence components in Europe if it wants to remove Russia's concerns."

He added that the U.S. trust-building measures lacked specifics and were "formulated in such a way that they could be cancelled at any moment."



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....let the Russians nuke us. We deserve it. We are so bad...

Then the world will be full of righteous Russkis. Oh Bliss.

... if you're dumb enough to believe that this "missile shield"
will stop anything that *hasn't* got a transponder fitted and
that *doesn't* fly a pre-planned trajectory then you're probably
dumb enough to believe that "Russkis" want to nuke you ...
"mission accomplished" as your glorious leader would say ...
:shrug:

Putin was happy to stay at home and cause trouble until Bush started doing it. Since then, Putin has seen it as a green light to raise the old hammer and sickle and put himself in as dictator for life.

And as I've pointed out elsewhere, this "missile defense shield" thing is crap. We're developing next gen nukes right now at Bush's order.

Smart money says we will deploy the first nuke.

Thanks to Bush -- again -- !!!

they have been able to for at least two or more years...another pay out to the defense industry.. they love carl levin and hillary clinton...those two provide the money to fuel war machines...

Thank gee that it quit all this slinking in up on us.

Bad luck for us that it didn't wait until after we were through with the War on Terrah. I guess we can't pick and choose our wars.