Washington wants to place a radar in the Czech Republic and 10 missile interceptors in Poland, purportedly to counter a missile threat from Iran and other "rogue" states. Moscow has responded angrily to the plans, saying the European shield would destroy the strategic balance of forces and threaten Russia's national interests.
"If the Americans deploy the radar by 2011 and anti-ballistic missiles by 2012-2013, they will certainly be directed against Russia, and we can easily prove it," the Chief of the Russian General Staff, Gen. Yury Baluyevsky said in an interview with Russia Today, an English-language state TV channel.
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The head of the Russian armed forces, Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky (left), and the chief of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Gen. Liang Guanglie, in Vladivostok, Russia. A challenge to American dominance in world - The Hindu