Russia's Chief of general staff, General Yury Baluyevsky, told Russia Today T.V Channel, that the Russian Armed Forces were under no obligation to protect the world from the "evil Americans".
In
an interview with the English-language, state T.V., the top military chief cautioned that the "insidious" U.S. missile defense shield weapons system has nothing to do with countering Iran and is
aimed squarely at Moscow, as tensions continue to heat between the two superpowers.
He was speaking of U.S.plans to place a radar and missile defense systems in both Poland, and the Czech Republic, supposedly to protect America and it's allies from Iran and other "rogue" states.
"If the Americans deploy the radar by 2011 and anti-ballistic missiles by 2012-2013, they will certainly be directed against Russia, and we can easily prove it,"
He said that those who are advising U.S President, George Bush, to create the global missile defense system, are driven by a lust for the ability to strike with impunity and prevent any retaliation.
He reiterated that the alleged Iranian threat, was merely being used by the U.S. as a pretext to deploy weapons near Russia's borders.
"There will be no Iranian threat to the United States in the near future. Iran will be unable to create intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States until at least 2020," he said.
The remarks come come just a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin compared the Pentagon's plan to deploy weapons in central Europe to the Soviet Union's 1962 deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Russian Military Chief: America Evil
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