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The Art of War
A recurring nightmare: U.S. missiles again
in Comiso
Manlio Dinucci
The plan was announced three years ago, during
the Obama Administration, when Pentagon officials declared: "In front of
Russian aggression, the United States is considering the deployment of
ground-based missiles in Europe" (the
manifesto, 9 June 2015).
Now, with the Trump Administration, the plan is
officially confirmed. In the 2018 fiscal year the Congress of the United States
authorized the financing of "a program of research and development of a ground-based
mobile cruise missile". It is a
nuclear missile with an intermediate range (between 500 and 5500 km), similar
to the 112 cruise nuclear missiles deployed by the US in Comiso in the
1980s.
They were eliminated, along with the Pershing 2
ballistic missiles deployed by the US in Germany and the Soviet SS-20 deployed
in the USSR, by the Treaty on Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF), stipulated in
1987. It prohibits the deployment of ground-based missiles with a range between
500 and 5500 km.
Washington now accuses Moscow of deploying
missiles of this category and declares that, "if Russia continues to
violate the INF Treaty, the United States will no longer be bound by this
treaty", i.e. the United States will be free to deploy ground-based
intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
However, a decisive fact is ignored: the Russian
missiles (assuming their range is intermediate) are deployed in a defensive
position in the Russian territory, while the US intermediate-range missiles would
be deployed in an offensive position in Europe close to the Russian territory.
It is as if Russia deployed nuclear missiles pointed at the United States in
Mexico.
As the USA/NATO escalation continues, the
deployment of such missiles in Europe is increasingly likely.
Meanwhile, in early February, Ukraine tested a
ground-based intermediate-range missile, which was certainly produced with US
assistance.
The new USA nuclear missiles - much more precise
and faster than the cruise missiles of the Eighties - would be deployed in
Italy and probably in Eastern countries too, adding to the B61-12 nuclear bombs
that US will deploy in Italy and other countries since 2020.
In Italy, the new cruise missiles would probably
again be positioned in Sicily, although not necessarily in Comiso. On the
island there are two USA installations of primary strategic importance.
The MUOS ground station of Niscemi, one of the
four on a world scale (2 in the USA, 1 in Australia and 1 in Sicily) of the
satellite communications system that connects all US forces, even nuclear,
anywhere of the world they are.
JTAGS, a satellite reception and transmission
station for the USA «anti-missile shield», which is about to become operational
in Sigonella. It is one of five worldwide (the others are in the United States,
Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan). The station, which is transportable, is
used not only for anti-missile defense but also for attack operations, launched
from forward-deployed bases such as those in Italy.
In the “Nuclear Posture Review 2018" the Pentagon declares: "The
United States commit
nuclear weapons forward-deployed to Europe, to the defense of NATO. These
forces provide an essential political and military link between Europe and
North America".
By linking us to their strategy not only militarily but politically, the
United States increasingly transform our country into a forward-deployed base of their nuclear weapons pointed at Russia,
therefore into a forward-deployed target at which Russian nuclear weapons are pointed.
(Il manifesto, 27 February 2018)
NO
WAR NO NATO
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