Russia has denounced the projected deployment of long-range US weaponry in Germany as a reversion to Cold War tactics.
A new Cold War is imminent, according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, who spoke to Russian television on July 11th.
According to Peskov, the US, France, Germany, and the UK are all complicit in the crisis in Ukraine. According to him, the Cold War is resurfacing in all its defining characteristics, including open hostility and physical combat between rival factions.
Similar to how the Cold War culminated with the fall of the Soviet Union, Peskov said that such a conflict may destabilize Europe overall.
Europe is rupturing. Right now, Europe isn’t exactly thriving. He said that history would repeat itself in an alternate arrangement. Russia is being undermined by all of this, and every effort is being made to ensure a strategic Russian loss on the battlefield.
Peskov emphasized that Russia should consider its situation and should not be pessimistic about it. They need to band together and make the most of the abundant resources if they want to achieve all of the objectives they set for themselves during the ‘special military operation.’
Russia’s President Putin refers to its invasion of Ukraine as a unique military operation. One of Russia’s goals in invading was to stop Ukraine from becoming a NATO member.
As a side event to the NATO summit, the US and German governments revealed that in 2026, US armament systems would be stationed in Germany, with a range that extends all the way to Russia. This is the first such arrangement since the Cold War. Only cruise missiles, which may be launched from airplanes, are available to the German army’s long-range missile program.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of people came out in peaceful protest when the United States stationed Pershing ballistic missiles in West Germany. American missiles were stationed in Germany even after the country’s reunification and far into the 1990s.
However, as the Cold War drew to a close and the danger from Moscow diminished, the United States drastically cut the number of missiles placed in Europe.
