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Moreover, stationing SM-3s in Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland was announced. Similar capabilities were installed in the Persian Gulf. They include supplying regional allies with longer range Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems.
The strategy involves having in place impenetrable interceptors from the Baltic, across Eastern Europe, through the Middle East to the Arabian, Black and Red Seas close to Russia's borders.
When completed in 2020, it will comprise a vast, sophisticated, flexible, mobile system. It also includes doubling the number of Aegis class warships to 38 by 2015, equipped with state-of-the-art missile interceptors.
America's front line capability will shift from Eastern Germany through the Middle East to the Black Sea and other strategic waterways to the Caucasus and Russia proper, encroaching on Moscow with new Eastern European bases in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland.
According to Khokhlov:
"There were a few pillars of global stability built in the 70s by the Soviet Union and the United States, and Bush's administration has contributed a lot to removing" them.
So has Obama. In contrast, "Russian foreign policy is very logical. The idea is to continue the cooperation that existed in the Soviet era..." However, installing first-strike missiles called defensive ones "in Europe or anywhere else (removes vital) pillars of stability."
For Russia, he added, "results and stability" are the two most "highly valued commodities," knowing it faces a belligerent America waging multiple imperial wars. Russia one day may be next.
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