Is this Treason? What exactly do you have to do to qualify?
Truth comes up.
It sounds like the US is offering the Russians a fig leaf to hide their inadequacies. By claiming the Russian missiles are still invulnerable, we can head off the political call for a new round of ICBM development by the Russians. The Russians don’t want to spend this kind of money, so they are happy to accept the falsehood.
It stands to reason that any interceptor fast enough to catch an Iranian missile would be fast enough to catch a Russian missile.
It’s gross obstruction and obfuscation from an anti-establishment 60’s child who simply can’t stand to see any form of US weapons proliferation. He knows he’s helping the Russian’s case.
Postol is always trying to say things that harm our ability to deploy a missile defense, even if he has to contradict himself.
Besides, isn’t this system designed to hit missiles that are basically overhead or close by? They can’t travel thousands of miles to hit a target moving away from them, right? Wouldn’t Russian ICBMs be launched toward the US on a path that wouldn’t take them close to these sites?
Let’s say this guy is correct. Russia could simply saturate the site with thousands of missiles. Then when there are no interceptor missiles left they are free to launch their ICBMs all they want. The fact is there is no way to defend against a massive ICBM arsenal, short of a star trek-type force field.