\tApr\u00e8s diverses vicissitudes ces deux derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es entre l’OTAN, les USA et la Russie \u00e0 propos du syst\u00e8me anti-missiles, que nous avions baptis\u00e9 en son temps BMDE (Ballistic Missile Defense Europe<\/em>), qui a du changer d’acronyme entretemps, mais que nous importe dans ce chaos g\u00e9n\u00e9ral et au cur des susceptibilit\u00e9s bureaucratiques de l’OTAN ? Nous conservons donc BMDE Pour noter que les Russes ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de montrer que tout se passe comme s’ils se f\u00e2chaient tout rouge. Ainsi Medvedev a-t-il averti s\u00e9v\u00e8rement que la Russie \u00e9tait pr\u00eate \u00e0 pointer ses missiles de frappe tactique contre des sites du r\u00e9seau BMDE. Il s’agit notamment de missiles \u00e0 courte port\u00e9e Iskander<\/em> dont il a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 beaucoup<\/a> question ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es comme arme de dissuasion contre le r\u00e9seau BMDE.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe 23 novembre 2011<\/a>, Russia Today<\/em> rapporte l’avertissement de Medvedev, qui marque la mauvaise humeur grandissante des Russes \u00e0 l’encontre de l’attitude des Am\u00e9ricains (et de l’OTAN). Medvedev parle certes, in fine<\/em>, des Iskander<\/em>, mais aussi d’autres mesures de riposte au niveau strat\u00e9gique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abResponding to Washington’s failure to bring Russia on board the European missile defense system, President Dmitry Medvedev announces sweeping plans to address what Moscow is calling a threat to national security. Medvedev said he will deploy strike systems in the west and south of the country and deploy Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region in order to counter the risk posed by the European missile defense system. By my order the Defense Ministry will run in a warning system radar station in Kaliningrad without delay, the Russian President said, commenting from his resident of Gorki on the outskirts of Moscow.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbRussia may also refuse to undertake additional steps toward disarmament in the event that its national security remains at risk. In the event of unfavorable developments (in regards to European missile defense), Russia reserves the right to halt further steps in the disarmament sphere and, respectively, weapons control, Medvedev said. Besides, given the inseparable interconnection between the strategic offensive and defensive weapons, grounds may appear for our country’s withdrawal from the START treaty.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t A c\u00f4t\u00e9 de cela, le 24 novembre 2011<\/a>, Russia Today<\/em> d\u00e9veloppe \u00e9galement une analyse sur cette question des BMDE et de la riposte russe. Rogozine, l’ambassadeur de la Russie \u00e0 l’OTAN, y d\u00e9veloppe son discours fort peu accommodant, mena\u00e7ant de vider de tout contenu la coop\u00e9ration entre la Russie et l’OTAN. Divers officiels et experts ont \u00e9galement la parole, d\u00e9veloppant le pour et le contre, exposant la crise et ce qui fait qu’il n’y a pas vraiment une crise, que la situation est grave mais qu’elle n’est pourtant pas si grave que cela Tout cela marquant finalement beaucoup plus la confusion consid\u00e9rable de la querelle que sa gravit\u00e9, ce qui est une \u00e9volution courante par les temps qui courent, le contenu et l’activit\u00e9 des situations de crise voyant la tension des menaces remplac\u00e9e par le d\u00e9sordre de la confusion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe <\/em>[Russian<\/em>] official noted that that despite disagreements, the two countries are not enemies. He observed that there have been differences in approaches when it comes to security issues even between closest allies.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAmerica says it is concerned with protecting its own homeland, yet it is deploying missiles along the Russian border. According to political analyst Igor Khokhlov, this policy of surrounding Russia and the former Soviet Union with missile bases actually dates back to the 50s and 60s. He added the United States has pulled the rug out from under its European allies by surrounding the Russian territory with missile bases.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbRussia has adequate responses, especially with its new generation of missiles like Iskander, which can be put in Europe and will endanger the European allies of the US. The European allies of the US, who joined this program, are putting their own populations at risk because before these events there was no danger from Russia, and now Russia has a response to America putting its missile bases around its territory, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbGlyn Ford, a former Member of the European Parliament, told RT Europe has an obligation to moderate any US plans that fail to take account of Russia’s genuine security concerns over the ABM project<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbDespite the fact that the US calls for an anti-missile defense system, Moscow’s concern is that Russia will be totally encircled and that it has the potential be used as an offensive system. According to political analyst Aleksandar Pavic, verification is very hard in these things. They can very easily and quickly be turned into offensive systems. We have to remember in 2002 US president George Bush unilaterally withdrew from the anti-ballistic missile treaty. This was the treaty that kept clear stability, not just in Europe but throughout the world for more than 30 years. Such threats actually increase the chances of a nuclear war or even accidental nuclear war. And the further way we get from that doctrine, which assured the peace, the more dangerous the whole international environment is becoming, he stressed. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAlice Slater from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation told RT it is unlikely the situation will lead to a new Cold War style arms race. I hope somebody will have some good sense because basically the US is a crumbling empire it is in debt, it cannot fund its roads, it has wasted its national treasure on the military, and it is almost like it has to have a total shift into the 21st century. War is not the answer anymore and there are many problems America has to deal with. Hopefully this is a wake-up call, she said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n