Source: RT
Russia’s Chief of General Staff says Moscow is being pushed into a
new arms race, although it has repeatedly stressed that it does not want
this.
In his speech at an annual meeting with foreign military
representatives on Wednesday, General Nikolai Makarov noted that at last
year’s NATO-Russia summit in Lisbon, President Dmitry Medvedev said
Russia could take part in Europe’s own missile defense system, but this
suggestion was rejected. Moscow then offered another option – if NATO
countries wanted to build their own defense system, they could simply
ensure that Russia falls outside its effective radius, and the effective
radius of similar Russian weapons would then remain within the
country’s borders. The second plan was also rejected, Russia’s military
chief said at the Moscow meeting.
