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Russia Warns America ‘We Will Respond

With Nukes’ 

Deputy PM says Moscow “preparing a response” to U.S. plans for missile shield in Europe 

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.comDecember 11, 2013

Addressing the threat posed by plans by the United States to install a missile defense system inEurope, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin today asserted that Russia would

respond with nuclear weapons if it was targeted by conventional American missiles.

Image: Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin (Wikimedia Commons).

Rogozin’s comments arrive just a day after  President Vladimir Putin called on Russia to upgrade

its weapons systems in order to repel U.S. plans to institute the EPAA missile shield in Europe,

which is ostensibly designed to counter Iran’s nuclear build-up yet is also firmly pointed atRussia.

Asserting that Russia was “preparing a response” to the U.S. missile defense system, Rogozin

warned, “They may experiment with conventional weapons on strategic delivery platforms, butthey must bear in mind, that if we are attacked, in certain circumstances we will of course

respond with nuclear weapons.” 

The Obama White House has refused to mothball plans for the missile defense shield despite the

Bush administration initially signaling it would be scrapped. Although Washington has indicatedit will abandon long range missiles, medium-range interceptors will be installed in Redzikowo,

Poland by 2018.

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Moscow still fears that NATO powers are using Iran as a camouflage for the true target of the

missiles –  Russia’s strategic nuclear forces. 

Russia has itself been working on new Yars (SS-29) Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that have

the capability of penetrating U.S. missile defenses and are set to be added to Moscow’s nuclear

arsenal next year.

Russia is currently engaged in the largest military build-up since the cold war, including the

development of a new missile defense radar in southern and western Russia designed to countermissiles launched from Europe, as part of maneuvers which pose, “a strategic threat to the

United States and NATO allies,” according to US military officials. 

Earlier this summer, Russia staged its  biggest military exercise since the cold war  in order to

ascertain the readiness of putting intercontinental ballistic missiles on “high-alert” within a short

time frame.

The drill was swiftly followed by  NATO’s biggest drill since the cold war , an exercise that was based around NATO’s response to a simulated invasion of Poland by a “foreign power.” 

The two drills coincided with Japanese fighters being forced to intercept Russian bombers that

were practicing attacks on U.S. bases in the western Pacific.

A heightening of tensions between the U.S. and Russia would dovetail with the threat of a newarms race in Asia  between Japan and China in response to the crisis surrounding the disputed

Senkaku Islands.