Moscow Slams US General For Plan To Destroy Russia's Air Defenses

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It goes without saying that the US and Russia both have many, many plans to attack one another. Generally speaking, however, it’s been treated as bad form to bring them up, and worse form to brag about them.

So Russia is criticizing US General Jeffrey Harrigian for talking up how the US has plans to destroy all air defenses in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, saying there should be “no doubt” the US could do it.



US General Jeffrey Harrigian said on Tuesday that "If we have to go in there to take down, for instance, the Kaliningrad IADS (Integrated Air Defense System), let there be no doubt we have a plan to go after that," the Breaking Defense magazine reported.

Russian Foreign Ministry officials say they consider the statement a “threat” and also particularly irresponsible, while the Defense Ministry said that Kaliningrad is well defended from US aggression.

"Firstly we consider this a threat. Secondly, we consider such statements to be absolutely irresponsible," Russia's Ministry of Defense said.

"The region of Kaliningrad is reliably protected from any aggressive 'plans' developed in Europe by US generals passing through," it added.

US forces in Poland often conduct wargames settling around moving north into Kaliningrad, and the region is small enough that the US could probably take it, at least for a time, in the event of a war.

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That probably doesn’t matter, however, as a full-scale ground war between the US and Russia where they’re seizing territory almost certainly would escalate into a nuclear conflict, and by the time the general is proven right, tens or hundreds of millions of people are about to be killed in a conflagration.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...s-air-defenses

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Question:

Please comment on the statement that the Pentagon has a plan to destroy the Kaliningrad integrated air defence system in the event of Russian aggression?



Maria Zakharova:

We consider this to be a threat, and we would call statements like this as utterly irresponsible. We see the light-mindedness with which the political beau monde, in particular in the United States, addresses serious and complicated issues like global security and stability, behaving irresponsibly as they are guided by short-term political and, as we understand it, personal electoral considerations. Most importantly, all of this is not merely indicative of irresponsibility but stupidity as well. Clever and farsighted officials, if they really represent the interests of the people who appointed or elected them to office, would never make statements that could harm the reputation of the country they represent.

I believe the Russian Defence Ministry will respond professionally, and provide appropriate examples and comments. The Defence Ministry always comes up with clear and professional comments on issues like this.



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