Citing the resurrection of a U.S. Cold War-era military command in Europe, and NATO’s plans to counter the missile threat from Russia, a high Russian official said this week his country would respond in kind—alluding to the deployment of nuclear-capable missiles into Europe. “The closer such systems appear to our borders, the higher the risks of destabilization, the more definite the contours of a new crisis, which, in fact, can be comparable in its degree of danger to the ‘Caribbean crisis, [Cuban missile crisis]’” said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to RIA Novosti, the Russian state-owned news agency. “Lack of progress towards a politico-diplomatic solution to this problem will lead to the fact that our response will be military and military-technical. That is, it will be a confrontation, it will be the next round, it will be the emergence of such means on our part.” Ryabkov said the alternative to …