US and NATO missile shield activated in full tension with Russia
America has given the final push Thursday to devised missile shield to defend Europe from outside threats. This instrument, which is under the umbrella of NATO, is intended to prevent an attack by ballistic missiles (far-reaching) from territories such as Iran or Korea. Nevertheless, Russia understands it as a direct threat and activation -after several years of demoras- coincides with a time of tension between NATO and Moscow. "It is impossible that the shield shoot down Russian ballistic missiles I see no reason why tensions are justified;. The threats of Russia are irresponsible, the Russians know it is not a system directed against them," argued the secretary general of this organization, Jens Stoltenberg, at a press conference in Budapest, Efe reported.
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Both Stoltenberg and Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States, Bob Work, attended Thursday at the launch of the missile shield in the Romanian city of Deveselu. And Friday will be the ceremony for the construction of another part of the device in Poland, which is expected to be operational in 2018. However, the system can not operate at least until July, but Washington wants to send and political signal it is ready.
Russia sees the project as a provocation which comes into force two years after the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea by Moscow and after the further strengthening that has never made the Atlantic Alliance in Eastern Europe in the nearest countries Russia. Despite Stoltenberg's words, the shield may have, in effect, ability to stop some Russian ballistic missile launches. Aware from the outset of these fears have arisen in Russia, NATO initiated a dialogue with the Kremlin to dispel doubts, but broke down in 2013 for lack of confidence.
This defensive instrument is active at a time of growing US military involvement in the former Soviet orbit in response to Russian interference in Ukraine. With an objective of deterrence, the Pentagon budget has quadrupled its program of military support to allies in Central and Eastern Europe. The first world power will increase next deployment of troops and combat vehicles in the region year.
US Ambassador to NATO Douglas E. Lute, the shield integrates initiatives of the Atlantic Alliance to face an "arc of instability" stretching from the eastern border of NATO with ex-Soviet countries to the southern border with the Mediterranean .
