Russia Harks Back To Cold War Strategy
March 9, 2008
According to Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer, what Moscow is doing with these incidents is providing not a threat but a message.
“The message that we’re back again, that we’re still a kind of something, a chip off the Soviet Union, we have the capabilities, we have those heavy bombers that can carry nuclear weapons, which other nations do not have, and that we should be taken seriously,” he told The World Today.
Lawrence Korb, a senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress and former assistant secretary of defence in the Reagan administration, says the Russians have not adjusted to the fact that they are no longer a great power.
“Given the high price of oil in the last decade, their economic situation is obviously better, but their military is a shadow of its former self and they have very, very limited capabilities,” he said.
Mr Korb says the US Government will recognise that their posture toward the Russians has to change.
“We can just no longer assume that we can do whatever we want in the security realm without some sort of reaction,” he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been reacting with threats to what he sees as the United States getting ever closer to his country, particularly with the American plan for parts of its missile defence shield to be installed in eastern Europe.
“To protect our national security, we have to respond”, Mr Putin said at his final media conference recently.
Mr Putin has also talked about the arms race beginning once again. But as for these recent demonstrations of power over US warships escalating beyond something symbolic, Mr Felgenhauer thinks that is highly unlikely.
“Risk is really minimal because no one really right now is on a war footing at all,” he said.
But he says it does, to some extent, amount to a resurgence of Cold War rhetoric and actions.
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