NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (L) and Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos arrive for an official inauguration ceremony at Deveselu air base, Romania, May 12, 2016. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea/via REUTERS
MOSCOW — As American and allied officials celebrated the opening of a long-awaited missile defense system in Europe with a ribbon cutting and a band, the reaction in Moscow on Thursday was darker: a public discussion of how nuclear war might play out in Europe and the prospect that Romania, the host nation for the United States-built system, might be reduced to “smoking ruins.”
“We have been saying right from when this story started that our experts are convinced that the deployment of the ABM system poses a certain threat to the Russian Federation,” the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters in a conference call.
“Measures are being taken to ensure the necessary level of security for Russia,” he said. “The president himself, let me remind you, has repeatedly asked who the system will work against.”
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WNU Editor: Russia has always stated to the West that missile defense was a red line for them in Europe .... a policy position that goes back to the 1980s. That red line is now crossed, and the debate in Russia right now is on how should the government respond. I expect the Russian reaction will be severe .... and while one missile defense installation with a few interceptors in Romania and Poland are not a threat to the Russian Republic .... the focus in Moscow is anything but. They see this as major escalation of tensions in eastern Europe and a violation of past agreements .... and they will respond in kind.
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