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Vladimir Putin
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United
States and its NATO allies of aiming their defense missiles at Russian
territory, in spite of the assurances that they wouldn’t do that.
Speaking for a program called The Cold Politics, Vladimir Putin said
that the partners of his country had pledged to keep rogue states away
from attacking Russia but that they “undoubtedly” aim at neutralizing
the nuclear capacity of Russia.
He added that the antimissile in eastern Europe, in Romania and
Poland, can cover the Russian territory to the Ural Mountains, where the
“our ground nuclear forces” are. Iran and North Korea pose no threat to
Europe or the United States, Putin added, reminding that NATO offered
no written or otherwise guarantees that they would not use their
missiles against Russia.
Putin spoke of the United States plan to create an anti-missile
shield in East Europe and reminded that the United States was the only
country in history to have used the nuclear weapons at the end of WWII,
when it attacked Japan.
After affirming that Russia would always respond to threats directed
against it, the prime minister, who is credited to win presidential
elections in March in the first round, reminded that Russia and the
United States are the only countries in the world to possess the
“nuclear triad,” that is ground, sea and air nuclear forces.
NATO has called on Russia two years ago to participate in a program
of defending Europe, a call which Russia responded to coldly, with
little interest. It did however reacted angrily when the American
anti-missile shield was negotiated to be put in place in Romania and
Poland, which is very close to the Russian borders.
Russia demanded on that occasion written assurances that the
anti-missile shield was not aimed at its territory, but was never
answered.
In his interview, Putin accused the partners in the UN Security
Council for claiming to possess information about weapons of mass
destructions that allegedly are in possession of different countries,
which then they invade in order to change their regime. He expressed
doubt that those allegations were even real.
His words on this theme come at a time when Russia has opposed that a
resolution on Syria contain sanctions against the restive country,
where the government has been battling its own people for 11 months,
with estimated death toll of 5,400 people.
Russia is one of Syria’s trade partners, and has a serious commitment
to the regime in Damascus, considering that it is on Syrian ground that
it maintains the only military base outside its territory. Besides,
Syria is a very serious partner in weapon trade.
Putin is speaking of these international matters as part of his
presidential campaign, reminding the Russians that their country under
him had and could resume its international stance of world power.
The prime minister promised not to engage his contenders during the
campaign through television debates, arguing that he was entrenched in
solving the problems that the country is being confronted with.
Opposition however accused him of using his office as means of
propaganda and demanded that he step down for the duration of the
campaign.
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