Washington's "nuclear blackmail"
04/22/2004 19:06
Will Russia share Iraq's destiny?
The States continue to "blackmail" Russia claiming they will reduce
the amount of promised grants for utilization of weapons of mass
destruction (WMD), in case Russia will not compromise certain
political and economic aspects. Most likely, Russia will never see
those promised $20 billion USD meant for the liquidation of WMD,
writes "Vremya Novostei."
This has been stated yesterday by Director of political research
Center of Russia Vladimir Orlov. A new program entitled "Global
partnership against the spread of weapons and materials of mass
destruction" has been proposed during the G-8 summit which took place
in Canadian town of Kananaskis in June 2002. In accordance with the
initiative, known as "10 plus 10 over 10", the US plans to provide
half of the money, the rest of the members, including Russia will
provide the rest. The total amount will be issued for 10 years.
Today, according to Orlov, this promising program is rapidly going
down the drain. Time limits of the destruction of 40-tonns worth of
Russian chemical weapons have to be extended; only 5 submarines have
been cut in pieces so far of almost 200 subs total. The reason is
simple-no money.
Japan for instance, promised to contribute $200 million USD and
provided only one or two million. France preferred to keep quite.
About 60%-90% of the allocated funds remain in the country-donor in a
form of a pay to contractor companies. But even that minimum that
makes it to Russia causes nothing but troubles.
Russia will inevitably have to increase its financing portion. This
will not be an easy task experts claim, since the country is in need
of twice as much as $20 billion USD. Vice-President of the American
"Nuclear threat reduction initiative" fund Lora Hallgate has made a
rather blatant statement yesterday: "The problems that are intended to
be solved by means of the "Global partnership" program are those of
Russia."
The US and NATO have been spending heavily in Afghanistan and Iraq and
do not wish (or simply cannot afford) to help Russia. The US tends to
use terrorism threat as its main excuse more often in order to justify
its financial passivity.
Mrs. Hallgate has made a rather sensational statement the other day.
According to her, terrorists can easily create nuclear weapons, in
case they have some sort of a fissionable material handy. The
statement appears to be rather meaningful, especially considering that
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of ex-Director of the nuclear materials utilization department of the
US Department of Energy. This gets even more exciting after one takes
into account the newly adopted US strategic defense plan of nuclear
materials. What a remarkable position indeed: we refuse to give any
money and at the same time, we refuse to loosen control.
In the meantime, nuclear suitcases disappear; Chechen terrorists make
their "dirty bombs" in their underground laboratories and so on. Isn't
it a real Joker? We leave it up to you to decide: moans of Putin's
authoritarianism from across the ocean started to bore people; the
Russian bear is no longer bothered by such claims and simply ignores
them. How else is it possible to attract his attention? Perhaps, a
nuclear war will do?! There is a vast country with massive supply of
WMD and no control whatsoever! This, as you may have already guessed,
poses potential threat to the civilized world. Let's wave our nuclear
cudgel and perhaps, the bear will fall down on his knees or simply
die. However, the latter will most likely never happen. After all,
present-day master of the White House still needs Russia.
Last year, Russia intended to review its own programs concerning
destruction of weapons of mass destruction while relying on
international support. A rather "amorphous" position of the West
regarding the matter was the main reason for such move.
Partial financing of the program regarding total liquidation of WMD by
the West, which it constantly uses as a "pressure lever on our
country", served as the main reason for such statement. Such situation
leads to the fact that Russia is no longer capable of making long-term
plans concerning construction of special nuclear and chemical
destruction facilities. Unofficial experts admit that such statements
are absolutely valid, since the US constantly blackmails Russia with
the fact that they will reduce the promised funding for the WMD
utilization and attempt to use this matter as an excuse to get certain
political and economic concessions.
"The West (mainly the United States) constantly promises us to provide
funding for the WMD utilization," said expert of the Institute of
strategic and Military analysis, Alexander Khramchikhin to RBC daily.
"In the end however, we get much less the initial promise."
"The West is really behaving unethically, while trying to manipulate
Russia," states Khramchikhin. "Russia in turn will least likely to
curtail its program of WMD destruction." These weapons and materials,
mainly chemical, are mostly dangerous for us then they are for them.
Our country cannot provide normal conditions to keep them safe. At
times, they are simply lying around outside.
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