http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11975866
Feb 23 2008 3:50PM
U.S. can attack Russia in 2012-2015 - Russian military analyst
MOSCOW. Feb 23 (Interfax-AVN) - After 2012-2015, the U.S. will be able
to annihilate Russian strategic nuclear forces by a non-nuclear
preemptive strike, said Konstantin Sivkov, the first vice president of
the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems.
"I declare that the likelihood of a military threat is great as never
before now," Sivkov told Interfax on Saturday.
Western military experts have recently started to talk about the
possibility of attacking Russia and annexing its territory, Sivkov said.
"Russia is supposed to be dismembered into three parts, with the Western
part going to the European Union, the central part and Siberia to the
U.S., and the eastern to China. This is a rough scenario," he said.
Russian armed forces will be unable to successfully counter an
aggression, Sivkov said. "At the present time, the conventional armed
forces cannot properly perform their duties in a regional war, like the
Great Patriotic War, even in theory. Even if fully deployed, their
potential is limited even in local wars. The only factor that deters
[the U.S.] now is the nuclear arsenal," he said.
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