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-- «THE
ART OF WAR» --
Under the «shield» of US nuclear weapons in Europe
The NATO missile site at Deveselu in Romania (photo), which is part of the US Aegis «defence missiles»
system, has finished its « update », begun last April. NATO's communique
assures that it has added «no offensive capacity to the system», which remains
« purely defensive, centred on potential threats from outside of the
Euro-Atlantic region».
The Deveselu is equipped (according to the
official description) with 24 missiles, installed in vertical underground
launchers, for the interception of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Another site, which is to become operational in 2020 at the Polish base in
Redzikowo, will also be equipped with this system.
Launchers of the same type are installed aboard
four cruisers of the US Navy, which, deployed at the Spanish base of Rota,
cruise in the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. The very
deployment of these launchers shows that the system is not directed against the
«Iranian threat» (as the US and NATO claim), but mainly against Russia.
The fact that this so-called «shield» is not «purely
defensive», is demonstrated by the very war industry which built it - Lockheed
Martin. They document that the system is «designed to be installed for any
missile in any launcher», and therefore adapted to « any mission of war»,
including «attacks on land-based targets». Lockheed Martin specifies that the
larger ramps are capable of launching «the largest missiles, like those
intended for defence against ballistic missiles as well as those intended for
long-distance attacks». They therefore admit that the installations in Romania
and Poland and the four warships of the Aegis system can be equipped not only
with anti-missile missiles, but also with Tomahawk cruise missiles with nuclear
warheads, capable of hitting objectives thousands of kilometres away.
As documented by the Congressional Research Service (24 July 2019), the four US warships which «operate
in European waters to defend Europe from potential ballistic missile attacks»,
are part of a flotilla of 38 Aegis ships which, in 2024, will rise to 59.
In the fiscal year of 2020, 1.8 billion dollars
were allocated to the enhancement of this system, including the sites in
Romania and Poland. Other land-based and sea-based installations of the Aegis
system will be deployed not only in Europe against Russia, but also in Asia and
the Pacific against China. According to the plans, Japan will install, on its
own territory, two missile sites furnished by the USA, and South Korea and
Australia will also buy warships of the same system from the USA.
Furthermore, during the three months in which
the Deveselu equipment was taken to the USA in order to be «updated», a battery
of mobile THAAD missiles from the US land army was deployed in the Romanian
site, with the capacity to «shoot down an extra-atmospheric ballistic missile»,
but also to launch long-range nuclear missiles.
Since the Aegis system was recalibrated –
according to NATO communications – the THAAD system was «redeployed». NATO did
not specify where, but we do know that the US army has settled missile batteries
from Israel to the island of Guam in the Pacific.
In the light of
these facts, at the moment when the USA tore up the INF Treaty in order
to install intermediate-range nuclear missiles at the borders of Russia and
China, we will not surprised by the announcement – delivered in Moscow by
Senator Viktor Bondarev, President of the Defence Commission – that Russia has
based Tu-22M3 nuclear attack bombers in Crimea.
But almost no-one is looking into this, since,
in the EU, all this information is hidden by the politico-mediatic apparatus.
Translation: Pete Kimberley
Source
* Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile
Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress Updated July 24, 2019
-- https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL33745.pdf
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