What a shock. I honestly didn’t see this coming. What happens when you design a “missile defense”, which might, someday, be able to stop all missile attacks, and thus nullify the ability of any nation in the world to respond to a US attack? This is what happens;
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday that Moscow was creating a nuclear weapon capable of thwarting any defense system in the world, Interfax news agency reported.
“There is not now and will not be any defense from such missiles,” the news agency quoted Ivanov as saying.
Noam Chomsky has been pointing out that opponents of the missile defense were arguing incorrectly that the missile defense doesn’t work, when it’s far more dangerous if it appears that it might work. If that’s the case, then the US can attack any nation in the world with total impunity. And certainly the US has not given the rest of the world any reason to fear attack, has it? …