MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, in a decision that was widely expected, suspended his country’s observance of a key nuclear arms control pact on Saturday in response to a similar move by the United States a day before.
But adding to a sense that the broader architecture of nuclear disarmament has started to unravel, Mr. Putin also said that Russia would build weapons previously banned under the treaty and would no longer initiate talks with the United States on any matters related to nuclear arms control.
Trump has just made the world an objectively more dangerous place. The speed with which Russia exited the INF treaty and moved to create new, previously banned weapons strongly suggests that this was at least one of the topics that Putin and Trump discussed in private.
There's no putting the genie back into this bottle. The new nuclear arms race has begun and no future Congress or President can stop it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/world/europe/russia-inf-treaty.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Weren’t the US and Russia the only signatories of this bill?
If one party leaves, isn’t it just eye-wash for the party to withdraw?
Trump has just made the world an objectively more dangerous place. The speed with which Russia exited the INF treaty and moved to create new, previously banned weapons strongly suggests that this was at least one of the topics that Putin and Trump discussed in private.
There's no putting the genie back into this bottle. The new nuclear arms race has begun and no future Congress or President can stop it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/world/europe/russia-inf-treaty.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Actually, they pulled out of compliance years ago, so what's the big deal?
I don't follow.
Cool. I always wanted to know what it was like to live in the Fallout universe. /s
Actually, they pulled out of compliance years ago,
so what's the big deal?
What is the I.N.F. Treaty and how did it come about?
The treaty resolved a crisis of the 1980s when the Soviet Union deployed a missile in Europe called the SS-20, capable of carrying three nuclear warheads. The United States responded with cruise and Pershing II missiles based in Europe.
By the time President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader at the time, negotiated the deal to ban the weapons in 1987, the intermediate-range missiles had come to be seen as a hair trigger for nuclear war because of their short flight times — as little as 10 minutes.
Actually, they pulled out of compliance years ago, so what's the big deal?
So we shouldn't uphold our end? Someone has to be the voice of reason. That used to be us, but those days are gone so long as Trump is around.
I know for a fact what it would be like for me, where I live right now, we’d probably survive the initial exchange, I’m virtually certain of that, but we’d all probably end up starving to death or dying of whatever horrific nuclear fallout consequences may be, rad storm?
Bout as close as we’ll get to the game.
It takes two to hold up both "ends". What part of 'they haven't abided by the terms of the agreement ( and continued to develop IRBMs, putting US troops and allies at risk)' did you not understand? Do you want to go along blithely pretending to be a Democrat and allowing the opposition to continue their nefarious ways without calling them out? Fortunately, we currently have a leader with a pair, a big improvement over the last eight years.
It takes two to hold up both "ends". What part of 'they haven't abided by the terms of the agreement ( and continued to develop IRBMs, putting US troops and allies at risk)' did you not understand? Do you want to go along blithely pretending to be a Democrat and allowing the opposition to continue their nefarious ways without calling them out? Fortunately, we currently have a leader with a pair, a big improvement over the last eight years.
It takes two to hold up both "ends". What part of 'they haven't abided by the terms of the agreement ( and continued to develop IRBMs, putting US troops and allies at risk)' did you not understand? Do you want to go along blithely pretending to be a Democrat and allowing the opposition to continue their nefarious ways without calling them out? Fortunately, we currently have a leader with a pair, a big improvement over the last eight years.
I thought your president was supposed to decrease our involvement in the military-industrial complex. That was supposed to be one of his selling points.
You are about to discover that there is a small, unsubtle difference between the possible violation of the treaty by testing an intermediate range delivery system and actually manufacturing a fleet of intermediate range nuclear weapons and placing them where they will raise tensions to the same levels as in the 1980's.
But hey, at least you can say the guy you put into office has "a pair," so living with the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation will have been totally worth it.
So where did you get all that classified information you so freely post? Who is doing which of those calamities? I spent a career with my finger near the launch button, so no, I am not about to discover anything of the sort. Seen it, lived it, survived it, through the good actions of Republicans.
Trump has just made the world an objectively more dangerous place. The speed with which Russia exited the INF treaty and moved to create new, previously banned weapons strongly suggests that this was at least one of the topics that Putin and Trump discussed in private.
There's no putting the genie back into this bottle. The new nuclear arms race has begun and no future Congress or President can stop it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/world/europe/russia-inf-treaty.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
So we shouldn't uphold our end? Someone has to be the voice of reason. That used to be us, but those days are gone so long as Trump is around.
Trump has just made the world an objectively more dangerous place. The speed with which Russia exited the INF treaty and moved to create new, previously banned weapons strongly suggests that this was at least one of the topics that Putin and Trump discussed in private.
There's no putting the genie back into this bottle. The new nuclear arms race has begun and no future Congress or President can stop it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/world/europe/russia-inf-treaty.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
YOUR President said that? When? What does that have to do with the OP anyway?
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