Preemptive strike is an option
Russia has vigorously opposed President Barrack Obama’s plans for the Missile Shield in Europe; however a Russian general has now threatened to attack U.S. Missile Defense Sites. General, Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces has warned the U.S. that the Russians could launch a preemptive strike on Missile Shield locations across Europe in the case of a crisis. While the Russians have always opposed the Missile Shield and said that they would attack the installations, this is the first time they have talked of a preemptive strike and it is likely to strain relations between the two countries.
Destabilizing
General Makarov was addressing a conference on antiballistic missile policy in Moscow when he talked about the destabilizing nature of a missile defense system. “Taking into account a missile-defense system’s destabilizing nature, that is, the creation of an illusion that a disarming strike can be launched with impunity, a decision on pre-emptive use of the attack weapons available will be made when the situation worsens,” General Makarov said in his speech.
NATO plays down comments
However Alexander Vershbow, NATO’s deputy secretary general, played down the importance of the threat and said that NATO was working on to resolve what he called “differences in perception regarding the capability of the NATO shield”.
“I think a lot of the countermeasures described by General Makarov were familiar ones, but I’d have to go back and do research,” he told reporters in Moscow. “Clearly it is not something we welcome, by any means. We think the system we are developing poses no threat to Russia, so the whole notion of retaliation or countermeasures has no foundation.”
I realize I’m making a simplistic statement here, and that I do not have all the background facts, can someone please explain to me why in 2012 other countries (duh, let’s see… Russia, Iran, North Korea, China) continue to work on an outdated model of ‘world domination’?? It’s so 50′s and 60′s!
Let that sink in a minute, really, think it through….to have complete control over what’s left of civilization after any war…. IF anyone survives the radiation fall out, not to mention the lack of utilities, what is the aggressor nation left with?? A reconstructive nightmare? It never plays out the way you plan!!!
To be king or ruler of what? Impose your rule and beliefs on whom? The survivors? Who will no doubt resist …Really, what’s the point? My beliefs and religion are right and yours are wrong? Haven’t we matured beyond this by now?? It all seems so juvenile to me….
Hey, just my observation….
Hi, I think I have the answer to the question.
Rulers of non-democratic countries by definition rule by force. It is most only implied, with citizens of these countries mindful of negative consequences of disobedience.
It is only natural for these rulers to use the same approach when trying to extend their rule. For example, Saddam Hussein first obtained oil by subduing the Kurds who live on top of it. Then he tried to do the same with Iran, and later with Kuwait.
This seems outdated to people in democratic nations because they have left the autocratic way of life behind. But other nations didn’t.
And that of Hussein is not very different from what US Government does.. is it?
The US is no different, President Obama may be an elected President but did he seek congressional approval before he sent more troops into Afghanistan and bomb Libya? He did not! The congress did not declare war on those nations but he did it anyway. That is against the United Staes Constitution. So Obama is just another Dictator.
Totally agree … grown ups with pea brains.
And a darned fine one it was. Couldn’t've said it better myself.
You have point…
Launch a pre-emptive full out nuclear attack on the mo-fo’s right now. Get this crap over with. Ignorant savages, the lot of them.
This man who was talking about preemptive nuclear strike has no brain and war freak. Do you think if Russia will do that because of missile defense shield, the U.S. shall say hey, what’s your doing? They must remember that U.S has a lot of nuclear missiles and weapons compare to them. If they will do that? This will be the end of the world. Russia and China against U.S and Europe and nobody will win.
Lesson learned, in every war nobody is a winner and all is a loser.
these is a clear fruit of pride and jealousy..if that is the product means all nation must produce nuclear weapon to end the human satanic behaevior” if russia make premptive strike against U.S ISRAEL will strike too”NO reason to stop any country to make there own nuclear weapon like iran and asean country..”
You are wrong…Russia has the largest stockpile of strategic nuclear warheads….do your research first..US is a warmonger nation…is it necessary to installa missile shields??US is very much adept in creating imaginary foe…..
North Korea, China & Russia (maybe Vietnam & Cuba too) are conieving & instigating this chaos…Their mentality does not differ from Hitler and Saddam who are devilistic in nature… loves to see the world damaged…. they want to rule and bully! These countries should have been kept in isolations … so they can not harm the world.. once they get the chance to be powerful enough …they become dangerous to the world and mankind…. The world must be prepared … dangers can arise anytime.. we have many crazy leaders.. I really do not see the reason why Russia is intimidated with this Missile Defense… They must not be threatened because it does not harm people but it is just a solution to protect people when a missile targets them. US, China, Russia & all others are powerful… but this is not our concern… we must protect ,he world from this lunatics… The world will be gone… once blown up by bombardmend of missiles the world will explode without the missile defense to defend us.
It’s probably viewed that missile defence system may void MAD, hence it could encourage the west to nuke the east without fear of mutual destruction.
A State that believes itself impervious may get a little aggressive
Holy crap somebody gets it! The only assurance that the Russians have that we won’t attack and destroy them is that they have an equal ability to get off their ICBMs before their country explodes and do the same to ours. Remember, just as we were all taught that Russia aims to rule the world they were all taught that this is our goal. The missile defense system lessens their ability to counter strike should we be the aggressors. They would be limited to using their sea born supply of warheads which might only take out 90% of the US population instead of turning the entire country into glass like they could with the addition of their land based sites. This is of course all considering that the defense system would be any use at all. Frankly I think It would be fairly easy to overcome by shooting them eastward instead of west so they only really protect western Europe, but what do I know? Wars have been started for less I suppose.
You can’t be serious.. no really is that some poor joke or something? N.Korea, China, Russia, Vietnam and Cuba ‘instigating chaos’ LOL!
How many foreign countries were attacked by those evil, eeeeeevil people in the last 10 years? Hm? And how many countries was attacked, bombed, occupied by good ‘ol USA (and it’s satellite GB)? Let’s say that Russia decided to build ‘shield’ arround USA- i’m 100% sure that the americans would attack them instantly (cuban missile crises for example)….
Real ‘empire od evil’, global warmonger and planetary terrorist?-> U S A
according to your insignificant source and information….
Let’s make that….
“________is very much adept in creating imaginary foe…..”
Fill in the blank with any world leader you like. A country and its leader are two different things. Not always representative of the other.
Russia and China always boast around with their little nuclear weapons they do not know how many or types of nuclear stuffs america has hidden,they always think their threats scare us like back in the cold war era.
I think we will be O.K. at the ChoYeros Cantina in Santa Rosa, Los Cabos Mexico
The statement of an old Russian general is symptoms of his senility. In Russia communism is dead. Their society is already capitalistic and the rulers and the moneyed class enjoyed now the fruits of capitalistic society. The old general THINKS of old communist pasts of their country. While will NATO attact Russia unless they attact first. And why will the Russians attack first the West? To me there is no logic at all. I think that general has to be remove from his place by the real power in Russia.
The war is not between US and others but it will be a war between the multinationals and states/governments sponsored by the former and the civil society. When one realizes the ever increasing encroachment on civil liberties, and the winner being always the establishment, it is easy to explain the emergence of groups like Anonymous which even an establishment magazine has labeled as “hacks of valor”! President Obama came to power on the promise of more transparency but he is a record breaker as under his yet unfinished tenure, more whistleblowers have been charged than in any presidency! That explains all!!!
They made it a wasteland and called it peace.
Leaders of Makarov’s personality should be reprimanded for war mongering! The welfare of every sovereign country has the right to be secured and protected. Lunatic leaders can trigger a war anytime to assert their power. America should be ready to defend!
There will be no full-scale war, this is rhetoric simply to increase the cost of Oil.
They are not stupid people, they completely understand the futility of large-scale wars be it conventional or nuclear – but this is a non-issue.
Follow the money people.
if only we all had answers to this madness maybe the world would be a better place.each country has its own problems so why create problems for other countries if it does not concern yours.americans are well known brag assess who think they own the world but still have to win a war yet which if you look at things in prospective they have not yet won one at all.the russians are simply following the americans way.so what is left after all, nothing new or old but a bunch of fart talking idiots
if only we all had answers to this madness maybe the world would be a better place.each country has its own problems so why create problems for other countries if it does not concern yours.americans are well known brag assess who think they own the world but still have to win a war yet which if you look at things in prospective they have not yet won one at all.the russians are simply following the americans way.so what is left after all, nothing new or old but a bunch of fart talking idiots just a simple thought to get you all thinking.
Turn into glass, hahah, it would put a crater in thee earth and thee ocean would flood in, hahaha, lolz
Why she not mention the hoar of hoars, and the hoar sisters, you scared little mouse, i see your size, it is as small as small, just like God, although God be great, you dont.
Its like the Son telling the Father what too do, it just dont seem right.
Sounds legit aye! :/
Russian generals stump this stuff up regularly. Every five years or so, some recent graduate of the Russian military academy mouths off in public about the scenario that they played-out in his most recent war game, as if it bears some relationship to geo-political reality. Then he gets slapped down by the Party machine and disappears without trace. Nothing new here.
Russians has suffered a lot of setbacks due to its dirty politics and irrelevant views …remnants of the communist era. They have false belief to dominate the world and be at the helm as superpower. While they are important to the international commerce and world security, some of their views are irrelevant and are results of corrupt politics and sadistic views about the west. Russia is an old sick man striving for a shot of steroids in the arm to maintain its macho image, but the reality is that he is still an old chub… unless the new generation embrace the new world order and stop fretting how great they were, there is no getting up there…its a sham….and Russia is playing a dangerous game of self interest rather than establishing an image of a reliable and responsible citizen of the world. What Kremlin does is the way like a whore do…as long as it satisfies her desire, she opens up….and enjoy the moment even if she does not like her playmate …like China and Sudan and Syria and Iran…these are her playmates despite of their ugly faces.
The sheer lunacy of a Russian General of whom beholds such an esteemed rank to be spewing first strike malicious intent in regards to this other European Shield Concept and partial reality borders on weaponized stupidity in it,s scope on the scale of skewed thinking on behalf of a Nation i had seen as so far past this immaturity and finally rid of most if not all of the geriatric hardliners was too advanced to even fathom the notion of nuclear nothingness minus what was civilization ?
Please allow me to step in and teach these miscreants under the guise of political farces politicians and Generals about the sanitized version of diplomatic chivalry and the art of deftly stoking the finely honed tool of avoidance and usage of wordplay all within the context of complete common sense minus the conundrums of countertheories that are well past the point of baffling anybody that matters with bullshit and nuclear blasphemy !
If the blunted edge of this Generals blurt takes on any more water then i loathe at the prospect of any future in the political arena of this country and our own and must implore the UN to gather some brilliance in the bureau or suffer the idiocy of all fools with a complete death by misadventure or an accidental assinine stumble over the safety switch and send us all to the far corners of the earth in tiny particles of protein ???
United states of arsehole will do the world good if our government can take care of the jobless and homeless back home, period.
please don’t compare hitler with saddam. their ratio in kills is about 1,000,000:1, and hitler strives for the superior aryan race, saddam just hates baywatch.
and i agree with pre-emptive strike, components of nukes have expiration, so it should be tested before it explodes on your face, and what better way to test it but china and iran.
all hail hydra!!!
good point , they can control the walking dead after its all over ..
Chris
Guys!…Guys!!…Guys!!! Wait, stop and think please. One of the comments here has something on it – it’s 50′s and 60′s” all over again! Right?
Wrong! US has made a great leaps from that arms era of 50′s & 60′s. Missile weapons systems (ICBMs, MIRVs, Minuteman, etc) were ‘top secret’ druring those times, but it won’t take a genius to tell us that today its not so secret anymore.
So, Russia, China, Iran, N.K., et al beware!
You may not know what hit you until it actually hits you and probably you will never know what was it!!!!!!
Remember M.A.D for Mutually Assured Destruction strategy?
A better one would be S.A.D for Strategically Assured Destruction!
was this started to help obama’s election? or are they total pea brains? look at the whole picture.
This whole nuclear annihilation thing is just a tad bit counterproductive. Nobody wins. This is about the U.S. and Russia, why do people keep throwing China into this? China has loads of better things to do than get obliterated by either the US or Russia’s numerically superior nuclear stockpiles. If anyone remembers, China and Russia were at odds after the death of Stalin regarding their respective approaches to socialist ideology, they’re not instantaneously buddy-buddy if World War III were to break out. Besides, if the Russians were to target the United States using ICBMs, the projectiles wouldn’t go over Europe or the Atlantic like most people think they would in the good-old Robinson projection maps we’re all so familiar with. They would go over the North Pole and over Canada. A more logical place for a missile shield. Besides, Russia has been leaps and bounds ahead of the United States in terms of electromagnetic weaponry since the 80′s, capable of taking out fly-by-wire aircraft and ICBMs without even needing a projectile to intercept said objects.
Fuck Russian and Putin
You guys are idiots. What if Russia wants to install same installations across Llatin America including Cuba? Would we like it? Certainly not and we would react similar to how the Russians have reacted. Preemptive strike threat. What gives the US the right to impose its will on other countries and not think they will react? Maybe even strike back. We have to get off this bully self righteous attitude we have about ourselves (the US Government, Obama and the military industrial complex). Have we not learned from Our (US) invasions of Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan? Under false pretext at that. Not enough US body bags? We need more?