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NATO rebukes Russia’s ‘nuclear saber-rattling’

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Russian President Putin delivers a speech at the opening of the Army-2015 international military forum in Kubinka. (Reuters)

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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg warned Tuesday that Russian plans to deploy 40 new nuclear ballistic missiles announced by President Vladimir Putin were part of a dangerous pattern of behavior by Moscow.

“This nuclear saber-rattling by Russia is unjustified, destabilizing and it is dangerous,” Stoltenberg said after a meeting with European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker.

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year, a remark that is likely to increase alarm in the West.

Putin made his announcement a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S. plan to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia’s border as the most aggressive act by Washington since the Cold War.

Tension has resurged between Russia and Western powers over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis, in which pro-Russian separatist forces have seized a large part of the country’s east after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in early 2014.

The West, led by the European Union and United States, have imposed punitive economic sanctions on Russia.

“More than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems will be added to the make-up of the nuclear arsenal this year,” Putin, flanked by army officers, said in a speech at an arms fair west of Moscow.

Intercontinental ballistic missiles have a minimum range of more than 5,500 km (3,400 miles). Putin gave no more details of which missiles were being added to the nuclear arsenal.

He has said several times that Russia must maintain its nuclear deterrence to counter what he sees as growing security threats, and Moscow reserves the right to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea.

Such comments have helped whip up anti-Western sentiment and rally support behind Putin but have caused concern in the West, particularly countries on or near Russia’s borders.

Fears of a new arms race
Russian officials warned on Monday that Moscow would retaliate if the United States carried out its plan to store heavy military equipment in eastern Europe, including in the Baltic states that were once in the Soviet Union.

“The feeling is that our colleagues from NATO countries are pushing us into an arms race,” RIA news agency quoted Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov as saying during "Army 2015", a fair at which arms and other military equipment are on show.

Putin has said Moscow will not be drawn into a new arms race although Russia is modernizing its armed forces. Putin said in his speech that 70 percent of the military equipment in use would by 2020 be the most up-to-date and top-quality.

But lavish military spending is weighing heavily on Russia’s national budget at a time when the economy is sliding towards recession, hit by low oil prices and Western sanctions.

The Kremlin portrays spending on the Russian arms sector as a driver of economic growth, but Putin’s critics say it is excessive and comes at the expense of social needs.

Last Update: Tuesday, 16 June 2015 KSA 19:48 - GMT 16:48
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The West should stop trying to control Russia.

If getting themselves more nukes makes the Russians feel safer then by all means let them add more nukes to their arsenal. In fact everything the West does seems to embolden Putin. The more they "flinch" each time he says something, he ups the ante each time because he knows their [Russia's] military posturing and "disturbing rhetoric" is working.
 

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I guess NATO is just trying to intimidate the Russian governament about the Krimea thingie again. I don't think Putin really cares about this since NATO won't be surely engage a war with Russia as they have a pretty strong arsenla behind their back.
 

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I don't think Putin really cares about this since NATO won't be surely engage a war with Russia as they have a pretty strong arsenal behind their back.
Putin is 100% sure that unless Russia attacks a NATO member state there's nothing NATO can do. But doesn't mean they can't try to indirectly destabilize those countries and then takes it a step further — hybrid stuff. And if NATO says they suspect Russia is involved they'll say, hey we've got nothing to do with that and don't forget we've go nukes. I guess we'll be hearing more talk about nuclear weapons as the cold war tensions and the new arms race intensify.
 

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Putin is 100% sure that unless Russia attacks a NATO member state there's nothing NATO can do. But doesn't mean they can't try to indirectly destabilize those countries and then takes it a step further — hybrid stuff. And if NATO says they suspect Russia is involved they'll say, hey we've got nothing to do with that and don't forget we've go nukes. I guess we'll be hearing more talk about nuclear weapons as the cold war tensions and the new arms race intensify.
If we go throguth nukes we are all death from the beginning, no matter where you live. Russia is strong enough in my opinon to carry out this economic measures against it, at least as for now it seems so.
 

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The assurance of mutual destruction is the restraining factor that will hold back all those that might be interested in waging war to show "who is better than the other." The worst that Russia and the West can do is trade threats and build more advanced weapons to maintain or retain some false sense of security.
 
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