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When you are aware of your weaknesses and are interested in maintaining balance and equitable security for all, it forces you to think with your head, commented the Russian Defense Minister.

But when, as it is the case of the United States inertia, you think that the balance of forces is on your side, many ideas can come to mind, including the least reasonable, the general considered.

With the increasing level of computerization and automation, errors in armament guidance systems are very likely, Shoigu said.

For this reason, in recent times the problems of computer security have been a priority, pointed out the officer, who denied any possibility of his country's involvement in a large-scale war.

We are all aware of the risks involved in a major conflagration, he said.

At the same time, he believed that the development of science and industry allowed Russia to successfully confront the United States.

However, his country is in no way preparing to compete with Washington on all fronts, he added.

If you look at the U.S. defense budget in detail, you can see that much of the spending is related to the maintenance of military bases scattered around the globe, Shoigu noted.

They have 170 bases. Only in Afghanistan, U.S. expenditures for one year are equivalent to the military budget for the same period of Russia, the head of Defense compared.

Washington and some Eastern European nations such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Poland refer at all times to the alleged Moscow threat to justify an increase of Western troops and weapons close to Russia, the minister denounced.

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