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Titolo: Russian general derides, warns U.S. on missile shield By Dmitry Solovyov

Russian general derides, warns U.S. on missile shield
 By Dmitry Solovyov 
Thu Jun 21, 12:57 PM ET
 
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's top general on Thursday ridiculed U.S. plans
to deploy a missile shield in Europe as unworkable and warned Washington
that Moscow could react with military force if it felt threatened. 
 
Moscow has reacted angrily to the proposed U.S. missile defense system,
parts of which would be located in Poland and the Czech Republic. Despite
U.S. assurances, Moscow has said it sees the missile system as a threat.
The chief of Russia's general staff, General Yuri Baluyevsky said that
since 1945 the U.S. had made little progress on anti-ballistic missile
defense and some of its much-touted anti-missile systems were "raw or even
untested."
"The one who still believes today that he will be able to intercept 'a few
Soviet rockets', makes a serious mistake," he told a news conference. "But
let's not drive such scenarios to practical implementation of this utter
madness."
Washington says the shield is designed to intercept missiles from rogue
states such as Iran, not to counter any Russian military threat.
Baluyevsky said that if the U.S. gave no positive response to President
Vladimir Putin's proposal to locate part of the shield in Azerbaijan
instead of eastern Europe, it would mean the actual target of its missiles
was Russia.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak echoed Baluyevsky: "This
radar will not be able to monitor anything except Russian bases," he told
the news conference.
Asked what steps Russia could take if it felt threatened, Baluyevsky said:
"If we feel a threat to Russia's national interests, it will be minimized
.. including by military means."
He said Russia's newest short-range Iskander-M missile system could be
used to stave off such a threat.
Baluyevsky said he expected Washington would turn down Putin's offer to
change the sites used for the missile shield.
"In my view ... the question of placing elements of the missile defense
system in Europe has already been decided by Washington," he said.
Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush are expected to discuss the issue
early next month at a meeting in Maine in the United States.
Baluyevsky showed journalists video slides with various U.S. rocket
systems and even a U.S. documentary publicizing missile shield plans.
Another slide depicted a Cold War-era scenario of a pre-emptive U.S.
nuclear missile strike on the Soviet Union, derived from a Western-printed
fiction of the 1980s.
"End of Day One. The Soviet leadership which survived the attack
surrenders," the slide read. It said the Soviets launched several nuclear
rockets in retaliation but those were shot down.
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 that Moscow could react with military force if it felt threatened.
I Russia's top generals hanno evidenziato una bella contraddizione
ancora irrisolta, mi pare.
Palmiro Pangloss

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pistola