{"id":379406,"date":"2018-10-02T21:09:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-could-launch-military-strike-against-russia-envoy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:09:20","slug":"presstv-us-could-launch-military-strike-against-russia-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-could-launch-military-strike-against-russia-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US could launch military strike against Russia: Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has threatened to launch a preemptive military strike against Russia if it does not halt developing a banned cruise missile system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington claims Moscow is violating a Cold War treaty and developing a ground-launched cruise missile which could empower Russia to launch a nuclear strike on Europe at short notice. Russia has repeatedly denied any such violation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point, we would be looking at the capability to take out a (Russian) missile that could hit any of our countries,\u201d US ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison said at a news conference on Tuesday in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCounter measures (by the United States) would be to take out the missiles that are in development by Russia in violation of the treaty,\u201d she added. \u201cThey are on notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia has not so far made any comment on the unprecedented threat issued by the top US official permanently stationed in the NATO headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Moscow has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/02\/575853\/US-could-launch-preemptive-military-strike-against-Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has threatened to launch a preemptive military strike against Russia if it does not halt developing a banned cruise missile system. Washington claims Moscow is violating a Cold War treaty and developing a ground-launched cruise missile which could empower Russia to launch a nuclear strike on Europe at short notice. Russia has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}