March 29, 2024

Russia Threatens the United States for Deploying Missile Defense System in Europe

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Land based Aegis Ashore ABM.

As United States and NATO officials celebrated the opening an Aegis anti-ballistic missile defense system (ABMD) in Romania on May 12, 2016, Russia said the system had raised the risks of a nuclear war. The ABM called Aegis Ashore was essentially transferred from a Navy ship launch pad onto land at the Deveselu air base in Romania.

The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (Aegis BMD or ABMD) is a Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency program developed to provide missile defense against short to intermediate-range ballistic missiles. It enables Navy ships to shoot down enemy ballistic missiles by expanding the Aegis Combat System with the addition of the AN/SPI-1 radar and Standard missile technologies. The Aegis ABMD does not have the ability to intercept Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), although future versions may allow limited intercept capability.

 

 

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A modified U.S. Standard Missile SM-3 launched from a ship has been able to destroy a satellite in low orbit flying at similar speeds to ICBMs. The SM-3 Block IIA that can already fly within a trajectory pattern of an ICBM may have some intercept capabilities. The Aegis ABM can be transferred from a ship to a land missile defense system as it was done in Romania.

Andrew E. Kramer wrote an article titled “Russia Calls New U.S. Missile Defense a Direct Threat” which was published in the New York Times on May 12, 2016. The reporter explained that in Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said Russian defense experts consider the Romanian site a threat to Russian national security. Zakharova said, “We still view the destructive actions of the United States and its allies in the area of missile defense as a direct threat to global and regional security.” She said that the Aegis Ashore launch pad was “practically identical” to a system used aboard Aegis warships that is capable of launching Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Kramer explained the following: “Russian officials reiterated their position that the American-built system imperiled Russia’s security. But the public discussion in Russia was darker, including online commentary of how a nuclear confrontation might play out in Europe, and the prospect that Romania, the system’s host, might be reduced to smoking ruins.”

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Romanian Foreign Minister Lazar Comanescu (left), Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg (center), and Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos (right) participated at the ceremony of the deployment of the Aegis ABMD in Romania on May 12, 2016.

The reporter pointed out that Russian Federation Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters in a conference call the following: “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. Measures are being taken to ensure the necessary level of security for Russia. The president (Putin) himself let me remind you, has repeatedly asked who the system will work against.”

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Robert Orton Work is the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Prior to that, he served as Under Secretary of the Navy from May 2009 to March 2013.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work addressed Russia’s concerns over the United States’ ABM defense system placed in Romania and said the shield is not targeting Russia. The United States said on May 13, 2016 that it planned to break ground on a second ABM site in Poland that should be completed in 2018. Robert Work reiterated the day before that there are “no plans at all” to strengthen this missile umbrella to protect against Russia.

Kramer said the United States has pointed out that the anti-ballistic missile system would protect only against “rogue nations, particularly Iran, and provide no protection for either Europe or the United States from Russia’s far larger arsenal of nuclear missiles. The NATO site will be controlled by an American officer.

The reporter said that Russia claimed that while the United States says it has no Tomahawk missiles at the site in Romania, Russian officials said the launch pad violates a 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This treaty intended to take the “superpowers off their hair-trigger nuclear alert, by banning land-based cruise and medium-range missiles with a range from 300 to 3,400 miles.”

Kramer added the following: “The short flight time of these missiles diminished to mere minutes the window Soviet leaders would have had after a warning to decide whether to launch a second strike, raising the risks of mishaps. Any redeployment of nuclear-capable missiles in Central Europe would roll the clock back to this nerve-racking 1980s status quo.” Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, stated the following: “We have to announce this openly, without any additional diplomatic formulations. We are talking about violation of this treaty.”

Russian dictator Vladimir V. Putin has warned that a U.S. antimissile deployment in Eastern Europe could prompt Russia to withdraw from the treaty. This warning is very ironic as Russia has already violated 1987 Intermediate Missile Treaty as well as the STAR Arms Treaty. The United States accused Russia in 2015 of violating the 1987 Intermediate Missile Treaty by failing to declare the true range of two missile types.

Russia has been violating the START Arms Treaty signed with the United States and the Intermediate Missile Agreement for some time as recognized by the Department of State. President Barack Obama has not taken any action to stop dictator Vladimir Putin from rapidly improving Russia’s nuclear arsenal and modernizing its weapons. Now at last, he is taking some action in Romania.

Pressured by Vladimir Putin, Obama made the horrible mistake of dismantling the ABM defense systems placed in the Czech Republic and Poland placed by President George W. Bush in 2009. This unwise action showed tremendous weakness to the Russian dictator Putin. This weakness shown by the president led to Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine. It also abandoned two allies of the United States in Eastern Europe.

Bill Gertz wrote an article entitled “Russia Doubling Nuclear Warheads” which was published in the website Accuracy in Media on April 1, 2016. Gertz explained that Russia deployment of new multiple-warhead missiles violates the New START Arms Treaty, according to Pentagon officials. Russia is doubling the number of its strategic nuclear warheads on new missiles by deploying multiple reentry vehicles that have put Moscow over the limit set by the New START arms treaty.

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The Russian SS-27 is a road-mobile ICBM with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles. All the U.S. land-based ICBMs are fixed in a silo making it easier to destroy.

Gertz pointed out that a recent intelligence assessment of the Russian strategic warhead buildup indicates that the increase is the result of the addition of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, on recently deployed road-mobile SS-27 and submarine-launched SS-N-32 missiles, said officials familiar with reports of the buildup. A Pentagon official stated the following: “The Russians are doubling their warhead output. They will be exceeding the New START Arms Treaty levels because of MIRVing these new systems.”

The 2010 New START Arms Treaty requires the United States and Russia to reduce deployed warheads to 1,550 warheads by February 2018. While Obama has cut its ICBM stockpiles significantly in recent years, Putin has increased the number of its deployed warheads and new weapons.

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Russian nuclear-armed drone submarine’s design

Bill Gertz stated the following: “The State Department revealed in January 2016 that Russia currently has exceeded the New START warhead limit by 98 warheads, deploying a total number of 1,648 warheads. The U.S. level currently is below the treaty level at 1,538 warheads. Officials said that in addition to adding warheads to the new missiles, Russian officials have sought to prevent U.S. weapons inspectors from checking warheads as part of the 2010 treaty. Disclosure of the doubling of Moscow’s warhead force comes as world leaders gather in Washington in late March 2016 to discuss nuclear security—but without Russian President Vladimir Putin, who skipped the conclave in an apparent snub of the United States. The Nuclear Security Summit is the latest meeting of world leaders seeking to pursue President Obama’s 2009 declaration of a world without nuclear arms. Russia, however, is embarked on a major strategic nuclear forces build-up under Putin. Moscow is building new road-mobile, rail-mobile, and silo-based intercontinental-range missiles, along with new submarines equipped with modernized missiles. A new long-range bomber is also being built.”

 

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This is an artist drawing of the Russian unmanned nuclear-armed drone submarine which is capable of carrying a large nuclear bomb into coastal waters to destroy cities.

Andrew E. Kramer explained that in the fall of 2015, Russian officials hinted of another military response to the missile defense system — a nuclear-armed drone submarine. During a high-level security meeting, a television camera zoomed in on an open binder showing the nuclear-armed drone submarine’s design.

Kramer stated the following: “The nuclear-armed drone submarine, according to easily decipherable text accompanying the design drawing, would be capable of carrying a large nuclear device into coastal waters and detonating it, touching off a radioactive tsunami to flood and contaminate seaside cities. The Russian official said that the submarine would defeat important economic objects of an enemy in coastal zones, bringing guaranteed and unacceptable losses on the country’s territory by forming a wide area of radioactive contamination incompatible with conducting military, economic or any other activities there for a long period of time.”

A Russian commentator, Konstantin Bogdanov, threatened the United States and Romania. He stated the following: “The antimissile sites in Eastern Europe might even accelerate the slippery slope to nuclear war in a crisis. They would inevitably become priority targets in the event of nuclear war, possibly even targets for preventive strikes. Countries like Romania that host American antimissile systems might be the only casualties, he wrote, whereas the United States would then reconcile with Russia “over the smoking ruins of the East European elements of the missile defense system.”

Conclusion

Russian threats need to be taken seriously and not printed in the back of newspapers. All television channels should be discussing the gathering threat of Russia and China to the security of the United States. Editorials in all major newspapers should demand additional funding to improve the obsolete nuclear arsenal of the United States before time runs out and the nation may find itself in a World War III that it cannot win. It is a matter of survival! Instead, the media and the president are concerned about the use of bathrooms by gays in schools and society.

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As this writer has written in articles and in his book, America in Decline (2014), a world superpower needs to be respected by its allies and feared by its enemies. Sadly, the United States is neither. It is no accident that both Russia and China are making more and more threats against the United States and are exercising imperialism against their neighbors. U.S. allies are terrified of the weakness coming from the White House which has emboldened China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea.

The United States needs to show a strong response to Russia’s threats and aggression in Ukraine. While no one is recommending a United States military intervention in Ukraine, there are many actions for the nation can take to respond to Russia’s naked aggression in Georgia and Ukraine, and its violation of missile treaties and threats to the United States and its NATO allies in Europe. This writer recommends that President Barack Obama denounces Russia’s violations of the New START Arms Treaty and the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and go before the nation and ask Congress for a drastic increase in the defense budget. The president needs to modernize quickly the U.S. obsolete nuclear arsenal and develop missiles and conventional weapons that are superior to those developed by Russia and China.

Obama needs to speak clearly and forcibly to the American and explain how Russia has developed better road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and anti-ballistic missiles (ABM), drone submarines, aircrafts, and other conventional weapons that are much better than those of the United States and request billions of dollars to improve defense weapons. Obama should send a large number of U.S. troops to Poland, the Baltic nations, and other Eastern European nations that are being threatened by Moscow. America should conduct cyber-attacks to steal military secrets from Russia and China, just as these countries have been stealing our military and industrial secrets.

word-imageThe U.S. European allies in NATO need to also send a large number of troops and drastically increase the funding for their Armed Forces and their economic support to the NATO alliance to face a more aggressive Russia. These nations also need to quickly send military weapons and supplies as well as economic aid to Ukraine.

Obama needs to install rapidly the missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland and improve drastically the anti-missile missile system of the United States. He needs to deploy the anti-missile missile system to the South of the United States to protect the nation from North Korean and Iranian satellites that enter the nation from the South. Lastly, Obama needs to isolate economically and diplomatically Russia indefinitely until it withdraws its soldiers from Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

 

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