The Kremlin indirectly threatened the West with a fierce response to the deployment of US weapons in Europe, after Berlin and Washington agreed to place long-range US missiles in Germany that would have the range to strike well into Russia. “Of course” Moscow will respond to this deployment, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response to a question from a Russian television journalist on Saturday. “There has always been a paradoxical situation: The US has deployed missiles of various ranges and calibres, and these have traditionally always been aimed at our country.” Russia, on the other …