A Russian serviceman walks past Russian Iskander-M missile launchers before a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade at range in Moscow Thomson Reuters
Business Insider/Reuters: After NATO complained about Russia putting nuke-capable missiles in Europe, Kremlin says it can do what it wants
* After NATO criticized Russia placing nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad, Russia's European enclave, Russia said it will do whatever it wants with its missiles.
* Reports of the Kaliningrad deployment are seen as a threat at a time when tensions between Russia and its Western neighbors are running high over Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it had the right to put weapons anywhere it chose on its own territory, after reports that Moscow had deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad drew criticism from its neighbors and NATO.
From Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, the missiles would be able to reach large swathes of territory in NATO-members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
The president of Lithuania, which neighbors Kaliningrad, and a senior Russian lawmaker, both said the missile systems had been deployed to the region. Russia has not confirmed the deployment.
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WNU Editor: The Kremlin is basically telling everyone that it is none of their business.
More News On The Kremlin Brushing Away Concerns On Where It Deploys Nuclear Weapons
Russia Tells NATO Not to Worry About New Missiles on the Border -- Newsweek
Russia defends right to deploy missiles after Kaliningrad rebuke -- Reuters
Don't Worry Where Russia Deploys Nuclear Missiles, Says Kremlin -- The Moscow Times
Kremlin: Location of our nukes is none of your business -- Politico.eu
Russia deploys nuclear-capable missiles to border with Poland and Lithuania -- The Independent
Russia deploys nuclear-capable missile system in Kaliningrad: reports -- DW
Russian missile deployment called "threat" to half of Europe -- CBS News
Russia Threatens No One By Deploying Iskander Systems in Kaliningrad - Kremlin -- Sputnik
7 comments:
Russia knows the West won't respond. The INF Treaty that Russia is breaching and has been breaching for a couple years is a case in point. That treaty is between the US and Russia to cover missiles that could threaten the Europeans, Japanese or South Koreans. The Russians know Germany would howl in rage if the US decided to withdraw from the INF Treaty and would not agree to a NATO replacement, let alone hosting it. Win-Win for Russia.
Germany just appointed Martin Schulz to the Foreign Minister, high school dropout, rapid in his contempt for Trump and dismissive of the NATO 2% goal.
The Russians know their Germans.
"The Russians know their Germans." Germany along with the rest of NATO is a net liability for America as are most of the "alliances." It's long past time to rethink them and to focus on policies that actually make sense for our national security and economic needs.
MAGA??
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That's true Russia can do what it wants in its own territory. That said NATO can do what it wants in its own territory too. To be perfectly honest, Kaliningrad is a threat but would be destroyed very quickly too. Means the damages are real but not as much as we can imagine.
The Iskander violates the treaty, and the missile is designed for steath, supersonic precision strike. Permanent deployment to Kalinograd puts the missiles behind currently deployed US ABM systems, including Patriot and Ageis Ashore. Coupled with the new deployments of the latest variations of the Kalibir missiles, the S-400's, and all the US's forward deployed ABM systems are vulnerable to a first strike.
A "beheading" strike, like the US is contemplating against the NORK's.
Cool, then the Russians should shut up about what we do with ours.
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