“Pointed nuclear weapons at me and my family and repeatedly threatened to kill every one I know.”
Oh, and by the way, Russia STOPPED pointing nuclear missiles at the United States in the 1990s, both Bill Clinton and Al Gore said so, and in both cases, no one disputed that.
As to today, they’re probably pointed at us, but then we’re vandalizing their backyard, so it makes sense to me.
Slow on the uptake are you?
The agreement was that NATO and Russia wouldn’t target each other’s cities. Mutual detargeting agreement 1994.
Even now NATO doesn’t have any of its nukes pre programmed to hit targets in Russia. The Minuteman III were set to Pacific ocean-area targets. More recent missiles don’t have the preprogrammed destinations.
This is largely symbolic because it’d take a couple of hours at most to reprogram the target.
But enough Russian officials have suggested that western cities are ALREADY being targeted (copious simulation of attacks, direct boasts), to question whether or not the current agreement is still being honored in Moscow.
Russia pulled out of that agreement years ago,