NATO Activates Missile Shield Despite Russian Anger!
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- This turning on of the Anti Missile Defence (AMD) system is another sign that the Anglo-American-Illuminist west is preparing for war. The reason they give that it is to protect Europe from missiles from rogue nations like Iran is nonsense. Any attempts by Iran to even say they want to launch missiles against Europe will be met will glee by the Illuminists. It will give them a perfect excuse to nuclear bomb Iran.
– - The AMD system is targeting Russia. It gives NATO a nuclear first strike capability against Russia since it protects Europe against Russian missiles! Putin and Medvedev are right to be concerned ! They know nuclear war is brewing!
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NATO activates missile shield despite Russian anger!
By Laurent Thomet | AFP
NATO leaders launched Sunday the first phase of a US-led missile shield for Europe, risking the wrath of Russia which has threatened to deploy rockets to EU borders in response.
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NATO official told AFP that US President Barack Obama and his allies “just decided” at a Chicago summit to put a US warship armed with interceptors in the Mediterranean and a Turkey-based radar system under NATO command in a German base.
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The alliance insists the shield is not aimed at Russia and aims to knock out missiles that could be launched by enemies such as Iran, but Moscow fears that the system will also serve to neutralize its nuclear deterrent.
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“Missile defense is indispensable. We are faced with real missile threats,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on the eve of the summit, adding that 30 states either have or seek ballistic missile technology. “Against a real threat we need a real defense,” he said.
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The standoff has tested Russian-US relations for much of the past decade and been one of the primary issues addressed by Obama when he launched a diplomatic “reset” with Moscow in 2009.
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Russian military chief General Nikolai Makarov said this month one option was for Russia to station short-range Iskander missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave near Poland, a long-running threat that has alarmed Eastern European states.
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NATO had hoped that Russian President Vladimir Putin would come to Chicago, but instead he sent a lower level delegation to represent Moscow during the summit’s discussion on Afghanistan.
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Putin, who returned to power after succeeding his protege Dmitry Medvedev this month, was often at odds with the previous US administration over missile defense in his first two terms of office.
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“Russia is sensitive about its nuclear capability because that’s what makes it a superpower,” said Nick Witney, a London-based defense expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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In a bid to appease its former Cold War foe, the Western military alliance invited Russia to cooperate in the system at the last summit in November 2010 in Lisbon, but the two sides have struggled to find common ground.
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