Sputnik International:
Last week, a new Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system went online at the Deveselu airbase in Romania – one of the integral elements of NATO’s so called ‘missile shield’ in Europe and another stage of what German journalist Florian Rotzer called “a new nuclear race between the US and Russia.”
According to Rotzer, the missile shield’s purpose is twofold: while it is used to apply more pressure to Russia, the NATO member-states ‘protected’ by the shield are forced to pay with their technological, military and political independence for their safety.
With AN/TPY-2 early warning system installed in Turkey in 2011 and NATO warships equipped with SM-3 interceptor missiles patrolling the Mediterranean, most of the missile shield’s components are already in place, as another Aegis Ashore system is due to be deployed in Poland in 2018, Rotzer writes at Telepolis online magazine…
