[Papatex]

This 1974 Treaty was with a country called the U.S.S.R. The U.S.S.R. no longer exists. How can we have a treaty with a country that doesn't exists? This is like hiring a man for $50 a week to keep your lawn mowed and trimed. (Big Lawn) He dies the second week. Do you still pay him - his estate - $50 a week for work he can't do? Only if you are a liberal Democrat.

[callisto]

This 1974 Treaty was with a country called the U.S.S.R. The U.S.S.R. no longer exists.

Eaxctly.

[Lurking Libertarian]

This 1974 Treaty was with a country called the U.S.S.R. The U.S.S.R. no longer exists. How can we have a treaty with a country that doesn't exists?

There are a number of problems I have with this suit, but this is not one of them. There is a well-established doctrine in international law called "state succession" which keeps countries from getting out of treaties by changing their government. The US successfully used this doctrine to keep the USSR from getting out of treaties signed by Czarist Russia, and it is equally applicable now to bind Russia to treaties signed by the USSR.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This 1974 Treaty was with a country called the U.S.S.R. The U.S.S.R. no longer exists.

That's all I need to hear. It's a true fact and this lawsuit is total garbage.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

While we're at it, we better pass environmental laws to protect the dodo bird and the dinosaurs, and run anybody off their land that threatens these species.