Why should the United States deploy an anti-missile system? Why does Russia think it is not good for the United States to deploy anti-missile systems in Western Europe?

China Journal Global Online News: Recently, the US-Russia relationship is quite tense because the United States wants to build an anti-missile system in Europe. Just as the outside world thought that the leaders of the two countries would take the opportunity of the upcoming G-8 summit to ease relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again severely condemned the United States on June 3. He accused the United States of provoking a new round of arms race and the Cold War, and announced that if the United States deployed an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe, Russia would respond by targeting missiles at Europe.

The missile will be aimed at Europe again.

According to the British "Guardian" report, before the G8 summit, Russia specially selected some media from eight countries to interview Putin. When talking about the missile defense system, Putin said: "If the United States' nuclear strike capability is extended to Europe, and our military experts believe that this will threaten national security, we will be forced to take corresponding measures to respond ... We must reset Europe as the target of attack ... We are not the first country to provoke an arms race in Europe. "

In June 5438+ 10 this year, the United States proposed to Poland and the Czech Republic to resume negotiations on the establishment of missile base defense. Both Poland and the Czech Republic agreed, and Russia reacted strongly to this, accusing it of posing a threat to Russian security. The issue of missile base defense has become a controversial focus between the United States and Russia, which directly led to the cooling of relations between the two countries.

The Bush administration has always insisted that the anti-missile system will not pose a threat to Russia. The us department of defense also explained that this system is aimed at missiles from Iran. Putin scoffed at this statement and retorted that Iran's missile capability was not enough to threaten the United States.

In this interview, Putin also reiterated the same view. Putin said: "We were told that the target of the anti-missile system does not exist. Does this sound ridiculous? The world strategic balance is being broken. In order to rebuild this strategic balance ... we will build a new system to fight it. "

In addition to accusing the anti-missile system, Putin also criticized the hegemonism of the US government. Putin said that no country can impose its will on other countries. Putin criticized that individual countries in the international arena always believe that their views are absolute truth, which is actually not conducive to the establishment of a credible international society.

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In addition to the meeting between the US and Russian leaders, the meeting between Putin and British Prime Minister Tony Blair has also become a highlight of the upcoming G8 summit on the 6th. The relationship between Russia and Britain has been very tense recently because of the poisoning case of former Russian agent litvinenko. Putin said in an interview on the same day that the relationship between the two countries has become more and more complicated because Britain has taken in Russian exiles.

Litvinenko, a former KGB agent, defected to Britain in 2000 for criticizing the Russian government. On June, 2006 1 65438+1October1day, he developed mysterious poisoning symptoms and died in the hospital on the 23rd. Finally, it was found that there was radioactive polonium residue in his body.

Litvinenko's death has seriously affected the relationship between Britain and Russia. Some British media commented that the relationship between the two countries fell to the lowest point in the past 20 years. After investigation, the British prosecutor accused Andrei lugovoi, a former KGB agent, of being the murderer. Lugovoi then held a press conference, saying that Russian financial oligarch berezovsky and British intelligence agencies were the biggest suspects.

The deployment of anti-missile system in Europe is an "annual joke"

On the same day that Putin accused the United States, Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and chief representative of Iran's nuclear negotiations, also publicly criticized the US plan to deploy a missile interception system in Europe. Larijani said that the idea of the United States to guard against the Iranian missile threat is really a "joke" because Iran's missile range is not that far at all.

Larijani said: "It's amazing that Iranian missiles can't reach Europe, and the United States doesn't know this. Besides, Europe is our biggest trading partner. Why should we do such a thing (attacking Europe)? "

Larijani also joked that the American plan should be called "joke of the year". He said: "These Americans often make similar jokes."

It is reported that Iran's longest-range missile is Shahab-3 ballistic missile, and Iranian officials say its range is 2,000 kilometers. (Chen Di, Wan Yan)