We have previously noted the similarity in America's current policy towards Russia's western borders and Russia's policy that led to the Cuban missile crisis. The edge of big countries is a bad place to play macho
Deutsche Welle, Germany - Russia intends to beef up its nuclear arsenal in 2015, Putin said Tuesday, speaking at a military arms fair aimed to show off latest Russian military technology.
"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," he said in at the arms show in Alabino, close to Moscow.
Putin has also said that Russia will soon start testing new long-range radar systems, which are to "monitor the western strategic direction."
In addition to upgrading its nuclear arsenal, the Russian army will start using new types of tanks and armored vehicles, which were first shown to the public during the Victory Day parade in Moscow last month. The vehicles "have no analogues in the world when it comes to combat capabilities," according to the Russian president.
Tensions between Moscow and the Western powers, primarily the US, have been high ever since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis in 2014. In addition to exchanging economic sanctions, both sides have been holding large military maneuvers, reminiscent of the Cold War period.
"The feeling is that our colleagues from NATO countries are pushing us into an arms race," RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov as saying on the sidelines of the arms fair.
The US considers deploying heavy military equipment, including tanks, in several countries in Eastern Europe and Baltic region, according to media reports during the weekend. The move is aimed to deter Russian aggression, according to a New York Times article.
Kremlin denounced such plans, warning that such move could stir dangerous instability in Europe.
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The gravaman of McCarthyism was that anyone who knew anything about Russia or the soviets was suspected as spy. The people in charge have no clue, by design. The charge of "Russian aggression" applied 200 years ago but not today. When Truman severed the alliance, anticommunism covered up the fact that the US had succeeded the Axis as chief protagonist in the Grand Game, the object of which is to dismantle Russia.
The US has been on a losing streak, and would have lost WWII but for the soviets. FDR followed long established precedent that Russia is a critical US ally. But that would be an anti-imperialist US, such Seward-Sumner-Lincoln, not an imperialist US of Calhoun-Davis-Lee.
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