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Russian Expert Expresses Skepticism about Trump's ‘Iron Dome’

A number of Russian military experts have expressed serious skepticism about President Trump’s plans to build an “Iron Dome” anti-missile system that can protect the entire country. “It’s hard to say yet what Trump’s version of the Iron Dome is, but to combat Russian and Chinese missiles, the Americans will definitely need new tracking satellites, ground-based warning stations, and interceptor missiles,” explains military expert Col. Viktor Litovkin (ret.). “The Americans have problems with all of this. So I don’t believe that Trump will have time to create such a system in the next four years.”

Colonel Litovkin is no stranger to the idea of missile defense. In the 1990s, when the Yeltsin government attempted to revive, in some form, President Reagan’s ideas of U.S.-Russian cooperation on a global missile defense system, in a program called The Trust, Litovkin wrote about the program in Izvestia, and even discussed the program with representatives of Lyndon LaRouche.

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