U.S. plans to place elements of its global missile shield in Romania pose a real threat to Russia’s national security, a Russian military analyst said on Friday.
Romanian President Traian Basescu said on Thursday his country was ready to host U.S. medium-range interceptor missiles to counter a potential ballistic missile attack, but stressed that they would not be directed at Russia.
“We are talking about the placement of the land-based Aegis system in Romania by 2015 which uses the new Standard Missile interceptor, SM-3. This weaponry, without a doubt, could significantly reduce Russia’s deterrent capability,” said Col. (Ret.) Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine.
He said SM-3 missiles would be able to intercept Russian ballistic missiles shortly after launch and on their initial flight trajectory.
“Russia must warn Romania that if the elements of the U.S. missile shield are placed in the country they will become a target of Russia’s preventive missile strikes,” Korotchenko said.
Last year U.S. President Barack Obama scrapped plans for Poland and the Czech Republic to host missile shield elements to counter possible strikes from Iran. The missile shield plans infuriated Russia.
However, Washington has announced a new scheme for a more flexible system, with a combination of land- and sea-based interceptors, to be deployed in Central Europe by 2015.
U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden visited Romania, Poland, and the Czech Republic last October to promote the new missile shield plan.
Warsaw and Prague have already expressed their support of the revamped U.S. strategy.
Korotchenko said that with ship-based SM-3s in the North, Black and Mediterranean seas, and mobile land-based SM-3s in Central Europe the western borders of Russia would be surrounded by U.S. missile interceptors by 2015.
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According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org-the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 D5 linked to GPS obtain a CEP (Circular Error Probability – – the radius centered on the target in which half the warheads are expected to hit)of 30 meters or less, enough to destroy any hard target. And according to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Please see Robert C. Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9. Even if the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is only for blackmail, the Russians may have no choice but implementing Launch On Warning. Bob Aldridge resigned because a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is suicidal.
I hope you agree that the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is the most urgent problem because it inevitably leads to Launch On Warning.
The missiles to be deployed in Romania and Poland and on ships in the Black Sea in Bulgaria by 2015 are a necessary component of an unanswerable first strike force – – to shoot down surviving Russian missiles which are launched in retaliation, according to Bob Aldridge.
alright Jeff,now I know u are Gringo,LOL:)
there is no way you remain neutral in eastern europe.
switzerland is a creation of world bankers,so no one dared to touch it,since all the wars are financed/started by the bankers.
well,the eastern block countries could switch sides in the future,who knows?their pourpose is to be a buffer zone,nothing more.so countries like romania etc get the first strike.
Vlad, now why would you want to insult me? We have just exchanged 2 sentences and you think you have the moral right to insult me?
I’m a gringo you say? Do you even have an idea what a gringo is?
Anyway I already knew what you said about Eastern Europe but that shouldn’t stop you guys from trying to be neutral you know?
Even if it’s hard to be neutral in that area, you guys should still try. After all what else can you do?
Maybe join with Russia but I doubt the average Romanian would agree with that…
If Russian government doesn’t act on te time, the way in that region US-NATO is acting, their soldiars will soon march in fron of Moscow gate…
If Russia doesn’t act on the time,the way US-NATO is behaving in that region,their troop will march in before Moscow gate.
No way ! Roumania has cojones ! Not like the czechs and polish .
I mean … If a war starts they will bomb all the countries not only Roumania by havin missiles .
Lets hope Ukraine joins NATO just for more safety :P
yeah Jeff,you are right. all these eastern european countries are a kind of “sacrifice” for the russians in case something happens.they’ve been forced/lured into NATO etc.but it could be well the opposite,mean switching sides.
Tell me Jeff,what do you think about Alex Jones? I heard Jeff Rense does not like him and there is a problem between them?
assuming you are Yankee:)
Here’s my point of view and yes I’m an American.
You guys in the East hate Russia because you have suffered from Communism but you guys have to udnerstand that it is not Russian people’s fault for that. I mean not mainly…..
The Jews have the main fault. It is Jews like Karl Marx from Germany who invented communism and it is Jews like Leon Trotsky who financed the communist revolution in Russia. Jews are still powerful in Russia but not as powerful as they used to be and not as powerful as they are in the US.
You guys should have 2 choices:
-Remain neutral (get out of NATO)
-Switch sides (join Russia-Ukraine-China-Iran-Syria-Venezuela alliance)
Since the last part is hard to accomplish, you should better stay neutral like Switzerland.
As for Alex Jones, well I guess he is alright in some ways but he is misleading people. He just stated in one of his shows that “Arabs run Hollywood”
WTF? Every moron with an IQ of 70 knows that Hollywood is totally Jewish! Even the Jews admit it and reply: “so what if we rule Hollywood, you got a problem with that?”
If America didn’t invest $ im Lenjin and Trotsky Communism would never be in Russia,by the way,communism never was real one,real one is to come!
Romania is playing with fire! It has chosen a dangerous path! It should have remained neutral like Switzerland. Romania is right in the middle of two super powers, the NATO and the Eastern Alliance: Russia + China + Iran and others.
In case of a war, Romania, Poland and Czech Republic would probably be the first countries to be whiped out by Russia & China.
If Romania would have remained neutral, no one would have attacked it.
Romanians must refuse the US missiles.
“Russia must warn Romania that if the elements of the U.S. missile shield are placed in the country they will become a target of Russia’s preventive missile strikes”
no wonder.