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Frightening determination
However, America’s mistakes are the business of America itself, we live in Russia, and we should be more interested in what our own government is doing and why. It’s interesting that at least one Russian capable of thinking with his own head (we don’t take the military into account, they always need threats so that the state gives more money, here the Pentagon and the Russian General Staff are twin brothers) believes that the American missile defense radars in Poland and the Czech Republic are really threaten Russia's security? What is the threat? They say the Americans will look through our territory? Likewise, if we wish, we have ways to view the American one, if we need it so much. Will the states be able to intercept our missiles? You'd think we were going to fire missiles at Western Europe. Or are we still going? Russia has no objective reasons to be nervous about the deployment of a US missile defense echelon near Russian borders. In our lifetime, America will not fight with Russia, just as Russia will not fight with America.
Again, how admirers of the current Russian government praised Moscow for its bold proposals for joint use of the Gabala radar station in Azerbaijan with the Americans or for the creation of a Russian-American missile defense system at a station that has not yet been built in Armavir. But they seemed to have forgotten that these proposals were preceded by a widely publicized test launch of the newest Russian SS-24 missile. Just the kind of missiles from which - only Iranian ones - America decided (no one is saying that this is a reasonable decision) to protect itself with radars in Poland and the Czech Republic.
In other words, we first prove with a missile launch that we are ready to get involved in a new arms race, then we try to convince the Americans to abandon their militaristic plans, and now again, with a decree on suspending participation in the CFE Treaty, we confirm our own ambitions.
Why is it now that we so suddenly stopped liking the agreement signed 17 years ago, even at the end of the USSR’s existence? Are we irritated by Western partners linking the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia and Transnistria? So we are bringing them out anyway, which we ourselves remind the West of every time. Are we afraid of the military power of our former partners in the socialist camp? Or do we sincerely believe that if the United States places a military base near our borders, the threat of their attack on Russia will sharply increase? But such a threat does not exist in nature.
One cannot demonstrate political determination based on a false perception of reality. It was precisely these actions that led to the collapse of the United States in Iraq. But why should we become like those whom we criticize for such policies? The CFE Treaty does not prevent Russia from wisely developing its Armed Forces. But the army reform buried in Russia is a hindrance. American radars in Poland and the Czech Republic are not a reason for Russians to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat in anticipation of military doomsday. And the militaristic frenzy, which our official rhetoric increasingly smacks of, is a cause for concern.
There are too many poor people in Russia, too few good roads, too unaffordable housing to again spend gigantic amounts of money on “rattling military muscles.” Let's first reach the economic level of the United States, and then we will compete with them with nuclear warheads and exercise political determination.