{"id":2399354,"date":"2025-02-05T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-beside-itself-after-trump-resurrects-reagans-star-wars-only-this-time-with-teeth\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:47:15","slug":"russia-beside-itself-after-trump-resurrects-reagans-star-wars-only-this-time-with-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-beside-itself-after-trump-resurrects-reagans-star-wars-only-this-time-with-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Beside Itself After Trump Resurrects Reagan&#8217;s Star Wars, Only This Time with Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-beside-itself-after-trump-resurrects-reagans-star-wars-only-this-time-with-teeth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2399354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses \u2062the implications of\u200d an executive order issued \u200bby President Donald Trump to establish an \u2062&#8221;Iron Dome&#8221; missile defense system for the United States,drawing parallels to Ronald Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; initiative.\u2063 Russian officials, including foreign\u200c Ministry representative \u200cMaria Zakharova, expressed \u200bstrong opposition, perceiving\u2062 the plan as a threat\u2062 to russia&#8217;s \u200bstrategic \u200dcapabilities and \u200cindicative\u200d of U.S. intentions \u200cto militarize space. Russian \u2062Ambassador Grigory\u2064 Mashkov \u200cwarned that this confrontation with the West could\u200d lead to an increase in Russia\u2019s nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s order emphasizes\u200c that the \u2064proposed\u200b missile \u2062defense is defensive\u2064 in nature, aiming to protect the U.S. from modern missile threats, especially \u2063those posed by rogue nations, although he cites growing concerns about advancements \u2063made by\u200d peer adversaries. The executive order\u200d includes\u2062 a \u2064call for an updated assessment of missile threats and plans for funding in the\u200b upcoming federal budget, along with\u2064 a focus on deploying\u200b advanced missile tracking \u200band interception systems.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 conjunction with these developments, Trump has urged Russia to cease its military \u2063actions in Ukraine,\u200d suggesting that cooperation \u200dcould prevent further escalations \u200band advocating for diplomatic \u200bresolutions rather then \u200bpunitive economic \u2063measures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The thought of an American Iron Dome to protect it from missile attacks has led Russia to launch a fusillade of fulminations that equates protecting the USA with harming Russia.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/the-iron-dome-for-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order<\/a> issued by President Donald Trump hearkens to former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/amazing-parallels-reagan-trump-keep-growing-least-5-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronald Reagan<\/a>&rsquo;s so-called &ldquo;Star Wars&rdquo; plan to protect America from incoming missiles. It brought about a dose of Cold War-era rhetoric from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It (the plan) directly envisages a significant strengthening of the American nuclear arsenal and means for conducting combat operations in space, including the development and deployment of space-based interception systems,&rdquo; Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/russia-condemns-trump-missile-defence-shield-plan-accuses-us-plotting-militarise-2025-01-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We consider this as another confirmation of the U.S. focus on turning space into an arena of armed confrontation &hellip; and the deployment of weapons there,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Zakharova said, protecting Americans impacts &ldquo;Russian and Chinese strategic deterrence capabilities,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/russia-trump-iron-dome-2024329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Grigory Mashkov, the Russian Foreign Ministry&rsquo;s special ambassador, lobbed some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/putin-readies-nukes-russian-nuclear-forces-now-combat-alert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hefty threats<\/a> after the order about an American Iron Dome was published.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is not ruled out that in the current conditions of confrontation with the West, with its policy of inflicting strategic damage on Russia, we may face the need for moving away from restrictions on nuclear and missile arsenals in favor of their quantitative and qualitative increase,&rdquo; Mashkov said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/the-iron-dome-for-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order<\/a> emphasized that Trump&rsquo;s plan is designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-trump-reveals-left-direct-orders-will-trigger-iran-assassinates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defend<\/a>, not attack.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Ronald Reagan endeavored to build an effective defense against nuclear attacks, and while this program resulted in many technological advances, it was canceled before its goal could be realized,&rdquo; the order said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And since the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 and initiated development of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-signs-iron-dome-for-america-executive-order-to-defend-against-the-most-catastrophic-threat-facing-the-u-s\/\" title=\"Trump Signs &#039;Iron Dome for America&#039; Executive ... to Defend Against &#039;The Most Catastrophic ... Facing the U.S.&#039;\">limited homeland missile defense<\/a>, official United States homeland missile defense policy has remained only to stay ahead of rogue-nation threats and accidental or unauthorized missile launches,&rdquo; the order continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening, the threat from next-generation strategic weapons has become more intense and complex with the development by peer and near-peer adversaries of next-generation delivery systems and their own homeland integrated air and missile defense capabilities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The order called for a plan that can be included in the 2026 federal budget, which takes effect in October.<\/p>\n<p>The order also called for an &ldquo;updated assessment of the strategic missile threat to the Homeland&rdquo; and a &ldquo;prioritized set of locations to progressively defend against a countervalue attack by nuclear adversaries.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/01\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-directs-the-building-of-the-iron-dome-missile-defense-shield-for-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact sheet<\/a> issued by the White House said the order &ldquo;accelerates the development and deployment of Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor Layers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-issues-executive-order-for-iron-dome-for-america-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump issues executive ... for \u2018Iron Dome for America\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">proliferated space-based interceptors<\/a>, a Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, capabilities to defeat salvoes prior to launch, non<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">-kinetic missile defense capabilities<\/a>, and underlayer and terminal-phase intercept capabilities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/russian-nuke-general-dead-explosion-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> to stop its war on Ukraine or face hard consequences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin &mdash; and this despite the Radical Left&rsquo;s Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX,&rdquo; Trump wrote last month on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113872782548137314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;We must never forget that Russia helped us win the Second World War, losing almost 60,000,000 lives in the process. All of that being said, I&rsquo;m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT&rsquo;S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE,&rdquo; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;If we don&rsquo;t make a &lsquo;deal,&rsquo; and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries. Let&rsquo;s get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way &mdash; and the easy way is always better. 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President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order recalls Ronald Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; initiative aimed at safeguarding the U.S. from missile threats, reviving Cold War rhetoric from Russia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that this plan suggests a significant enhancement of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and military operations in space, viewing it as a move towards militarizing space and undermining Russian and Chinese deterrence capabilities. Following the announcement of the Iron Dome initiative, Grigory Mashkov from the Russian Foreign Ministry issued stern warnings about potentially increasing nuclear arsenals in response to perceived Western aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s order emphasizes that his strategy is defensive rather than offensive, referencing Reagan\u2019s efforts to create a robust defense against nuclear attacks which were ultimately abandoned before achieving their goals. The order outlines plans for future missile defense initiatives within the 2026 federal budget and calls for updated assessments of strategic missile threats while accelerating various advanced defense technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Trump urged Russia to cease its conflict in Ukraine or face severe repercussions, expressing his desire for peace while recalling historical ties between the nations during World War II. He warned that failure to negotiate could lead him to impose high taxes and sanctions on Russian goods entering the U.S., advocating for a resolution before further lives are lost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2399355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump-v-Putin.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5634,4280,34172,3634],"class_list":["post-2399354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-reagan","tag-russia","tag-star-wars","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump-v-Putin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399358,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399354\/revisions\/2399358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}