The Russian government has warned it may respond to the U.S.-led plan to position parts of a missile shield in eastern Europe by stationing its own strike missiles on its southern and western flanks, including Iskander rockets in Kaliningrad, located between NATO and European Union members Poland and Lithuania.
“These Russian statements are a matter of concern for NATO allies,” Rasmussen told a news conference in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, today. “It is a complete waste of Russian financial resources because it is a build-up of offensive military capacity directed against an artificial enemy. An enemy that doesn’t exist, because NATO has no intention whatsoever to attack Russia.”
Russia should instead invest its resources in economic development and the creation of jobs, he said.
“I would encourage the Russians to face the new reality,” Rasmussen said. “We’re not enemies, we’re not adversaries, we should be partners. It would be of mutual benefit if we developed peaceful cooperation.”
2 comments:
Rasmussen seems not to hear his own words... Russia has been willing to work on the missile shield cooperatively since day one. This modern day Maginot Line can be built better with the footprint of Russia on the eastern end of it, that is obvious to everybody - except the too many Russophobes that still populate NATO.
To me NATO is a complete waste of money, especially when countries are forced to put in at least 3 per cent of their GDP into defense in order to become members, when that money could be spent on much more worthwhile projects, such as reducing energy dependence on Russia.
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