http://rt.com/politics/russia-us-missile-defense-shield-486/

The deployment of a global missile defense system by the United States and NATO undermines strategic stability in the world and prompts Moscow to take appropriate steps in response, says a leading Russian engineer.
Yury Zaitsev, an advisor at the Academy of Engineering Sciences, told reporters on Saturday that as long as the Americans continue to pursue a global missile defense system, the idea of strategic stability does not exist.
"While the US is planning to set up a missile defense system without any limitations, you can forget about strategic stability forever," Zaitsev said. "Russia is going to find itself surrounded by a belt of NATO interceptor missiles along its western borders.
In light of these developments, the specialist said that Russias plans to deploy tactical missile systems near the NATO borders are absolutely justified."
"The same thing concerns the creation of other forces and systems capable of destroying or disabling missile defense systems on the territories of neighboring states," he added.
NATO announced at its Chicago summit in May that an interim European missile defense system is already on line, and that the alliance is determined to proceed with its expansion until it fully realizes the system's potential.
Meanwhile, at the same time that US and NATO officials declare that the missile defense system is not targeted against Russia, their actual steps are proving the opposite, Zaitsev said.
"The European missile defense system is certainly designed not to defend from a mythical missile threat on the part of Iran and North Korea, but from what Western politicians believe could be a possible attack by Russian ballistic missiles," he said. "Any NATO military plans classify the Russian nuclear missile potential as posing a threat to the alliance, which envisions certain measures to neutralize (Russias nuclear defense forces)."
The Russian specialist said that it is possible that the missile defense system may give some politicians a false sense of security, possibly resulting in potential adversaries dictating their terms to Russia.
"No one can guarantee that there will not be politicians with the illusion of a reliable missile shield over their heads and, being sure of their security, wanting to dictate their terms to Russia," Zaitsev said.
In such a situation, it makes no sense to demand legal guarantees that the system will not be targeted against Russia, he stressed.
"Even if such guarantees are issued, they will only serve to lull Moscow, and then they will retract these guarantees just as easily, Zaitsev said. Suffice it to recall how prominent Western politicians swore that, following Germany's reunification, NATO would not move eastward even by an inch."
Americas determination to build a missile defense system in former Warsaw Pact territory represents the main stumbling block in relations between Russia and the US, Zaitsev explained.
He insisted that the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which former US President George W. Bush walked away from in late 2001, maintained strategic global stability precisely because it limited the deployment and modernization of missile defense systems. At the same time, the treaty provided opportunities to negotiate the reduction of strategic offensive weapons.

Source, Un?

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Happy now Mo? Funny i must say there is more about the table manners here, but for what is being fed.

Thank you, Un.

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"The chief aim of all government is to preserve the freedom of the citizen. His control over his person, his property, his movements, his business, his desires should be restrained only so far as the public welfare imperatively demands. The world is in more danger of being governed too much than too little. It is the teaching of all history that liberty can only be preserved in small areas. Local self-government is, therefore, indispensable to liberty. A centralized and distant bureaucracy is the worst of all tyranny. Taxation can justly be levied for no purpose other than to provide revenue for the support of the government. To tax one person, class or section to provide revenue for the benefit of another is none the less robbery because done under the form of law and called taxation." John W. Davis, Democratic Presidential Candidate, 1924. Davis was one of the greatest trial and appellate lawyers in US history. He also served as the US Ambassador to the UK.

Another totally irrelevant article. This shield as it is is designed and to be deployed now has nothing to do with the Russians and would not be able to stop their more sophisticated missiles. The Russians in fact were invited to participate in the program themselves. They are just butthurt that they are becoming more and more irrelevant and are having to suck up to their overlords the Chinese.

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Then i guess the russians have nothing to worry about, right..?

And all this yelling and screaming about pre-empt attack was just russians on too much vodka..?


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Pretty much... Just them posturing.

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U.S missile defense will defeat russian icbms!!!!!

Victory is ours.... COBRA!!!!!!

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It's not possible to stop Russia or even France for that matter with the missile shield, there simply aren't enough missiles even if they all hit.

What it can do though is reduce states to impotence that have been forced into nuclear programs by the aggressive US foreign policy overt the last 10 years.

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I said, COBRAAAA!!!, which should have ended the debate! Sheesh.



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What a colossal waste of money, in the cold war this would make sense since the USSR has a huge military and the conflict would be huge so the nuclear option is quite likily. Now there is no point since no one wants to live in an nuclear waste land. Small convetional wars as in Iraq, Afganistan and Libya is on the aganda. I'm quite happy China isn't wasting too much money on this. Use the money to build the Chinese economy instead while the US slips into decline due to huge debts with over inflated money wasting projects.

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Nothing new but for sheer arrogance.
As for the chinese friend i think you should get done away with this thing at the end of comparison between india and china. There is no comparison and you are falling to western media's rhetoric vis'a'vis China.
I was in shanghai in near past and it is way more developed than most western countries would ever wish to be. It is actually awe-invoking to the say least.