Posted on 12/04/2018 11:31:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the United States would suspend its obligations under a decades-old nuclear arms pact in 60 days if Russia does not come back into full compliance with the treaty.
Pompeo made the announcement following meetings with NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium, describing Russia’s violations of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty as part of a broader pattern of “lawlessness” by Moscow on the global stage.
President Trump signaled earlier this fall that he planned to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the INF Treaty, citing Russian violations of the agreement. U.S. officials have publicly accused Moscow of violating the treaty since the days of the Obama administration, but Russia has denied the accusations.
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Love our prez!
kaboom!
What’s so great about withdrawing from the INF treaty?
Take you time answering Ramrod.
It’s nice when we act with our eyes wide open.
It also makes you look weak. Like other countries can walk all over you and there are no consequences. The incidents will keep escalating until you are playing with lives.
Better to nip it in the butt.
You don't want to hold up your end, fine we will not hold up ours.
They will either decide they actually will abide by the agreement or they will decide to formally withdraw. Either way their intentions will be clear.
Either that they are not ready for conflict yet or they are.
Putin puffers will be deeply saddened.
Bring back a newer, faster, better version of the Pershing II.
The Russians will beg for the treaty to be returned.
Rrramrod!
What a deep thinker you are...mother would be proud.
It also makes you look weak. Like other countries can walk all over you and there are no consequences. The incidents will keep escalating until you are playing with lives.
So you agree that deployment of Aegis missile launch systems to Romania and Poland needed to be countered...got it.
Clearly yours isn’t...
But you go ahead and thing whatever you like little comrade.
It is more freedom then your masters will ever give you.
If Russia isn't abiding by the treaty, it's not much of a treaty, now is it?
We must allow them to aim as many guns as they please at us but putting on Kevlar is verboten.
“Comrade mac is in favor of the reemerging USSR ...”
Bingo! mac_truck is all in favor of “self-determination” for the Crimean people, but would like to see all of the other former Soviet Republics subjugated by force in the interest of a reconstituted USSR.
Personally, I’d like to see an MMA event matching Klitschko and Putin, winner take all.
“You are aware by the way of the difference between a shield and a sword right?”
It isn’t quite that way. In strategic missiles, when someone builds a shield, the other side has to face a glaring possibility. That is that safe behind their shield, that nation will launch a first strike in relative safety from retaliation. The way of overcoming that is to build more nukes in order to overcome that, or to develop new weapons that bypass that system.
So a shield is not always a shield.
Also, when that system was built in eastern Europe, it was advertised as protection from Iranian missiles, intended to hit them in their burn phase as they launched ona polar rout to the USA. If this was the case, then we should have included some Russians into that operation and into the umbrella in some capacity.
We didn’t, so they see it as a threat to them and we are headed back to a 4 minute hair trigger in Europe, and another Able Archer. Not saying it would have been a fantastic idea, BUT Russia has a very justified fear of European invasion and the devastation that follows. What we see as a great game, they see as an existential threat. This especially when we have people like Hillary trying to launch a color revolution there in 2011.
No telling how this cold war II ends, but we normal people in America will either be nuked to death, or taxed to death to pay for a new cold war (in addition to paying for 20 million Mexicans)
I'm aware of all the capabilities of the Aegis system...are you?
If a treaty isn't being abided by, its not much of a treaty.
That logic applies to ALL parties, not just one of them.
We should do it anyway. It makes no sense to be bound by a treaty which binds the US, but not China, or any other potential non-Russian nuclear adversary.
Plus, Russia will always cheat.
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