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Originally Posted by Kapitan
Russia has the capability to ending america right now and america also has the same capability to end russia now these new missile shields, which a treaty was signed i do believe in the 1970's stating a missile shiel could not be constructed as it would give an overall impunity to one side and the effects of MAD would deminish making one side a supreme power rather than just having two super powers this was signed by the americans who now amazingly u turn on this.
poland and check rep are due to have the missile barriers installed who's missiles are they going to target should a launch occour? Iranian missile dont have the range to strike the EU let alone american and north korea can just about hit japan so of course it leads to only one other country capible of nuclear launch Russia.
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Sorry Kap but you got a few things wrong there. That treaty (the ABM Treaty) allowed both sides to field a system that would protect only one target in each nation, the Russian deployed a system to protect Moscow (and its ICBM bases near by), the US was to have one to protect NORAD and the ICBM silos near it but it was only operational for a few months (called Safeguard). Also we followed the treaty when we withdrew (6 months notice).
Also Iranian missiles can hit Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria which are all part of the EU. In the space of a few years Iran has gone from being able to only hit targets in the Mid East to targets in Southern Europe. What range will their Missiles have in 2020? Paris and London maybe? Interceptors based in Poland and the Cech Rep make sense in that case.
Many countries are devloping ABM systems, India for example is devloping both Endo and Exo Atmospheric interceptors... oh and India has Nuclear Weapons and is building an SSBN too... In 20 or 30 years could India be a threat to the US or Europe? Who knows, as Larry Niven wrote "But you see in intelligence work we have to go by capabilities, not by intentions. If a potential enemy
can do something to you, you have to prepare for it, without regard to what you think he
wants to do."