History_Buff
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Which video game are you sourceing this from
No, China and Russia do not have stealth missiles
SDI in its current form is not designed to be effective against Russia or China, which is why it is so freaking hillarious whenever Russia gets all uppidy about it. It is designed to intercept a limited attack from medium power nations, and it can in fact do so.
Russia very well might, a stealthed cruise missile would not be tough to create, because they are relatively small and narrow. And it wouldn't be out of the question that China had one.
As for Russia's opposition to the ABM systems in Eastern Europe, I think a lot of it is the principle of it. The USA and USSR drew up agreements saying neither would develop or deploy an ABM system. I don't think it was ever fully signed, or somebody started pulling out of it. But the concept of an ABM system, while comforting to the people that have it, is tremendously destabilizing. Deploying small scale systems implies you are probably trying to build a bigger one, which is something Russia would not be pleased with.
You have to appreciate that for centuries Russia has been devastatingly invaded from the West, and preventing/defeating the next invasion is always number one on the list of priorities. You can't blame them for a little bit of paranoia.