IMI-Aktuell 2020/124
Raketen: Stationierungssuche
(13.02.2020)
Bereits vor der US-Aufkündigung des INF-Vertrages zum Verbot landgestützer atomarer Mittelstreckenraketen wurde teils völlig offen argumentiert, dies sei nicht aufgrund von Russland nötig, sondern weil man derlei Waffen gegen China in Ostasien in Stellung bringen wolle (siehe IMI-Analyse 2019/25). Defense One (via Bpb-Newsletter) berichtet nun, dass dies wohl schwieriger warden dürfte, als die USA sich das vorgestellt hatten: “Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, noted that even missile-defense deployments are a hard sell to America’s Pacific allies; reaching any sort of hosting agreement would ‚take a lot of American negotiating capital.‘ […] The experts were more sanguine about the chances that deploying new post-INF missiles would destabilize the Asia-Pacific region. They noted that Russia and China have already been manufacturing and deploying such missiles. ‚The U.S. deployment of these missiles would not introduce a new capability into the region, but rather give the U.S. more options to meet a growing military challenge from Beijing,‘ said Abraham Denmark, who runs the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program.“ (jw)