{"id":193352,"date":"2008-12-21T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/21\/russia-to-offers-to-cancel-some-strategic-weapons-systems-over-euro-star-wars\/"},"modified":"2008-12-21T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T12:26:00","slug":"russia-to-offers-to-cancel-some-strategic-weapons-systems-over-euro-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/21\/russia-to-offers-to-cancel-some-strategic-weapons-systems-over-euro-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Offers to Cancel Some Strategic Weapons Systems Over Euro Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commander of Russia&#8217;s Strategic Missile forces, Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov is saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSLJ27618920081219?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=worldNews\">many of the systems currently in development would not be necessary if the US backs off its missile defense installation in Poland<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;If Americans give up plans to deploy the third positioning region and other elements of the strategic missile defense system then certainly we will adequately respond to it,&#8221; Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will simply not need a number of expensive programs,&#8221; he added echoing earlier Kremlin overtures to the new U.S. administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has generally been the knock on various BMD efforts since Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; and the installations in Europe, which appeared to be located to challenge Russia more than Iran, just further complicate the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commander of Russia&#8217;s Strategic Missile forces, Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov is saying that many of the systems currently in development would not be necessary if the US backs off its missile defense installation in Poland: &#8220;If Americans give up plans to deploy the third positioning region and other elements of the strategic missile defense system &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,964,1096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-foreign-relations","category-missile-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}