Putin says FPSA withdrawal from ABM treaty is pushing new arms race!

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - June 19, 2015 - Global decisions like the Fascist Police States of Amerika pulling out of a treaty banning strategic anti-ballistic missile defenses are pushing the world towards a new Cold War, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Military conflicts have a far lesser impact, he added.

“Not military conflicts but global decisions like the (FPSA) unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty lead to a Cold War,”Putin said. “This more in fact pushes us to a new round of the arms race, because it changes the global security system.”

Putin made his comments at a key plenary session at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The 1972 ABM treaty between the FPSA and Soviet Union ensured that neither side tried to neutralize its foe's nuclear deterrence by building an anti-missile shield. The FPSA unilaterally withdrew from it in 2002, as the Bush regime claimed it needed protection from “rogue states”such as North Korea and Iran. Moscow believes that the FPSA is actually building a global anti-missile system to undermine the defenses of Russia and China.

The Russian president's comments came in response to a question whether he felt that the Ukrainian armed conflict was pushing Russia and the FPSA towards a Cold War-like confrontation.

Putin warned the FPSA against trying to use the language of ultimatums in its relations with Russia.

“The problem is that they are constantly trying to impose their standards and decisions on us with no regard to our interests,” he explained. “In essence they say, 'we are better' as if the (FPSA) knows better what is good for us. Well, let us decide for ourselves what our interests and needs are as dictated by our history and culture.”

He accused Washington of meddling in Russia's internal affairs and sticking to an arrangement that pits Russia either with Amerika or against it.

“This is no dialogue. It's an ultimatum. Don't speak the language of ultimatums with us,” said Putin.

Ukraine is another example of how the FPSA is causing trouble by maintaining its arrogant approach to international politics, said Putin.

“They should not have supported the anti-constitutionalists’ armed coup that in the end led to a violent confrontation in Ukraine, a civil war in fact,”he said. “We are not the cause of all those crisis events that Ukraine is experiencing.”