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Reloading said: "Stop"
Their pro and our Contra
Reset Off. You can forget about the Russian-American “rebooting” (Angl.-Reset) for a while: 23, President Dmitry Medvedev announced a list of military-political measures directed against the United States and their European allies who intended to hide under the American anti-missile umbrella. Why suddenly Dmitry Anatolyevich seriously felt like the chief of the Cold War - the New Times sorted out
Dmitry Medvedev announced a series of threats to the West: Russia, firstly, will immediately introduce a radar system of warning about a missile attack in Kaliningrad (whose residents now, apparently, can be forgotten about visa-free regime with the EU), and secondly, will equip their ballistic missiles with overcoming overcoming and new “highly effective fighting military by blocks ”, thirdly, it will continue to, if necessary, destroy the information and control tools of the pro-fourth system, will place in the west and south of the country the Iskander-type shock systems, which provide“ total fiery defeat of the European component of the missile defense ”, finally, will come out of the agreement on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons (SVV) and refuses steps in the field of disarmament if the United States continues. Construction of Pro in Europe. The president’s words rumbled “fire and steel”. The showman and TV presenter Maxim Shevchenko, who spoke on the Echo of Moskvy, met them with a sigh of relief: finally, Russia seriously played with muscles.
Cause
Are there any reasons for such a harsh statement by the head of the Russian Federation? There seems to be no visible. On November 13, at the APEC summit in Gonolulu Obama and Medvedev, they agreed to continue the discussion of the problems of the Pro at the NATO summit in Chicago in May 2012. On November 18, in an interview with RIA Novosti, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov said that “there is still a reserve of time in the US PRO Duration” and the Russian Federation “does not dramatize” the situation. Unless less than a day before Medvedev’s sensational statement, the State Department announced that the United States ceases to provide the Russian side with information about its armed forces on the European continent in response to Russia's refusal to fulfill the provisions of the Treaty on ordinary Armed Forces in Europe (DOVS). 
The version that it was the State Department that provoked Medvedev to an unprecedentedly tough statement that does not withstand criticism, is convinced by the director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, Alexander Sharavin. “We were the first to leave Dovs (back in 2007) and stopped informing the American side of what is happening with our armed forces,” the expert recalled in a conversation with The New Times. - The Americans continued to do this unilaterally, of their own free will. It is very strange to be offended by a partner for what he has already done. " "
According to the military prosecutor's office, every fifth ruble, that is, 20% of the defense order, is plundered
”The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Konstantin Kosachev assured The New Times that the statement by President Medvedev was not spontaneous, was not related to Dovsa and was preparing for a long time. Moscow does not intend to take into account the Russian concern about the Russian concern, which Russia sees a direct threat on the European continent. They turned out to be exhausted by the Americans, ”Kosachev emphasized You can still agree with a partner when there are 28 (all NATO members. - The New Times) is no longer possible.
Answer
If the logic of diplomacy can still be understood, then the logic of the military component of presidential statements raises serious issues among experts. “Medvedev does not understand anything in the subject of his speech and simply read Telotecst prepared for him,” said political scientist Alexander Khramchikhin. He is perplexed why the president needed a steel voice to talk about the “immediate input into the combat staff” of the radar in Kaliningrad, when we were already going to put this station on combat duty at the end of 2011? In addition, this radar, according to the remark of the interlocutor of the magazine, "has a European question about a very mediated attitude." The expert and a statement on the sub equipment of Russian ballistic missiles seemed no less strange: “Funds for overcoming about the enemy on our strategic ballistic missiles have been placed since the late 80s. This is not news at all! " The expert believes no real military role, will not play the Iskander’s impressive missile systems mentioned by Medvedev: “What can they do with Romania elements in Romania? Having a range of only 500 km, they simply will not reach there. ” 
He does not see any urgency in the modernization of Russian strategic forces, the head of the Center for International Security IMEMO RAS Alexei Arbatov. In his opinion, for the strategic missile forces (Strategic Missile Forces) of the solid fuel fuel intercontinental ballistic ballistic missile “Yars”, the problems of passing systems about systems about the passage of systems about simply does not exist. “Yars” is the asymmetric response of Russia to the American program, ”the expert is convinced. “Only this answer is not even to the about the pro that the United States began to be done in Europe, but to a potential pro, which can hypothetically be created after 2020 and which is not yet in drawings.” According to Alexei Arbatov, even if you imagine that such a pro will be aimed at weakening the offensive strategic potential of the Russian Federation, it is still “you can sleep calmly”: “Everything that Americans have now have and will create in the next 15–20 years in terms of the pro, as for the elephant of a prison”.
And the rapportment professor Yuri Chudetsky generally doubts the effectiveness of any missile defense system. As an example, he cited the case of the time of the USSR: “The Americans built their first about on the border with Canada - they knew that we launched our first missile group where Plesetsk’s cosmodrome was now facing the North Pole, this is the shortest way to the USA. Then ours launched a rocket in the polar orbit through the South Pole. And all - on this their "northern" about exhausted ... "
Reality
Going to the television cameras, President Medvedev clearly forgot to cope about the state of the Russian military -industrial complex. And the point here, according to Alexei Arbatov, is far from in finances. “According to the military prosecutor's office, every fifth ruble, that is, 20% of the defense order, is plundered. Each corporation and the company lobby for its products, and as a result, the budget is smeared with a thin layer, and the effect is minimal. ” The United States, for example, has 7-8 times more than ours, but they cannot afford to buy 2 tactical aircraft at the same time. “Russia, according to special literature, purchases 6-7 new models at the same time, and for money that is not comparable to American or even French,” the expert said.
Trillions of rubles allocated for defense, according to Arbatov, do not guarantee the coveted rearmament of the Russian army: “19 trillion rubles out of 20 trillion are a technical re -equipment of the directly armed forces. In principle, re -equipment is necessary, and the country could pull these expenses, but military power is measured not in expenses, but in what will turn out at the exit. To vouch that this money will be spent rationally, no one can today. ” The scandals of the current year with an incredible increase in the cost of military equipment, with the fall of its quality, with a continuous gravity between the Ministry of Defense as a customer and military-industrial associations as contractors say that "in this area-great chaos and in planning, and in contracts, and in implementation."
By the way, the developer of the Yars Ballistic missiles, which, according to Arbatov, can be a real argument against the pro, is the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, one of the most active participants in these financial scandals. And since 2009, the troops delivered only 2 divisions of the Yars, that is, 12 missiles.
Inner enemy
Most military analysts agree on one thing: Medvedev’s aggressive rhetoric is not explained by real foreign policy challenges and is not supported by the country's military-technical capabilities. According to Alexander Khramchikhin, this is a primitive pre-election PR ridge: “Again you need an external enemy. It seems that "United Russia" has no arguments. " True, do not forget about one more significant detail: by May, when the next NATO summit is coming, Vladimir Putin will already be the president of Russia, in comparison with which Medvedev in the eyes of the West is a “pigeon”. Does our “still acting president” fertilize the ground for a much more rigid foreign policy of the senior comrade in tandem - that is what it makes sense to think about. Both the West and us.
Natalia Frolova took part in the preparation of the material