Speaking in Berlin today, President Obama outlined the rough details of a proposal for more strategic arms reduction between the United States and Russia, aiming to reduce the level of city-destroying nuclear warheads either nation keeps.
The current START treaties, which President Obama signed during his first term, brought each side to 1,550 strategic nukes, and his new plan would aim to get each side capped at 1,000, still an enormous number.
In principle this shouldn’t be a big deal, but there are additional issues that would complicate a final agreement, with Russia likely to call Obama on his promise to revisit questions about missile defense before making any new deals.
Obama also suggested he would press Russia to cut their tactical nuclear arsenal in a future deal. Though Russia has a much larger such arsenal, they will likely argue that NATO’s encroachment into the original Warsaw Pact countries necessitates additional forces to counter-balance them.
Oh how noble of he nobel-peace price winning mulatto! He really cares about all of us and our future. Sounds like he's starting to build his case for war against Russia with this ruse.
At the same time O. is deploying missiles on 32 ships in the Mediterranean Sea, in Romania and Poland. What kind of warhead do they have ? But enough to destroy Russian missile silos, airfields, etc. I guess. GPS (NAVSTAR) was made for Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 to be able to hit Russian (and Chinese) missile silos accurately. Only for Blackmail as former CND Information Officer David Guinness suggested ? At some point, the rise of US Nuclear Primacy will result in Launch On Warning followed by Suicide. Missiles in Poland on the border to Russia to defend us from Iran ??? The Russians aren't idiots. They know that it has nothing to do with Iran. The Europeans on the other hand still stupidly believe any fairy tale coming from Washington. And why did Obama kill al-Awlakis 16-year-old son ? He wasn't accused of anything. He just went from the US to Yemen to look for his father when Obama decided to kill him because he wanted to. Obama is a psycho mass murderer, about 3,500 innocent kids and old people he has killed by drones. The real terrorists are the CIA and Pentagon, Night Raids and drone strikes are state terrorism. Obama is the Godfather. Obama is like the priest: Do as he says but never as he does. He knows that his proposal is meaningless as he continues to deploy missiles on the border to Russia. Obama is a joke but most of all he is a war criminal even worse and more evil than the war criminal Bush. Both are a level more war criminals than is usually the case with American presidents and they should be tried in the Hague. The first day he turned into a criminal for not putting the Bush-gang on trial. Bush kidnapped and tortured innocent people around the world, Godfather Obama just kills them. United Bluff is really The Great Satan and Obama is Mefistoles. Godfather as he likes to see himself. How many kids have you killed by drones today ?
I read an article today in the CSM by notorious Russophobe, Fred Weir, who claimed that Russia's military was still in shambles (to some degree) and they had to maintain their "aging arsenal" if they were to triumph over an aggressor. I guess Mr.. Weir missed the beat down Georgia received in 2008, which pretty much put a stop to NATO expansion. I also love how when discussing the US military, writers act as if all US military equipment was produced last year. America's nuclear arsenal is actually in more dire shape than Russia's due to neglect, as there was a recent report on this. Russia has maintained it's ICBM capability and have developed several new platforms (land, mobile & sea-based) over the past decade and has new Nuclear Ballistic submarines (Borei class) to carry them. The US Ohio class subs which carry most of America's nukes are 30 years old.
I doubt Putin will go for more reductions until the modernization of their military is complete in 2020.
It doesn't matter that Russia has new Nuclear Ballistic Submarines. According to chief submarine missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously among other things via Extreme Low Frequency-see http://www.plrc.org and Bob Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9. The most silo-killing missiles on both sides are Minuteman-3 with the MX warhead (like the D5 on Trident-2 it was designed to minimize nuclear winter effects if used against missile silos according to Professor Paul Rogers) and Trident-2. The Russians can only hit cities. GPS, formerly known as NAVSTAR, was developed for Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 to be able to hit Russian (and Chinese) missile silos accurately-see Robert C. Aldridge: The Counterforce Syndrome, First Strike! The Pentagon's Strategy For Nuclear War (available in English, German, French, Danish), Nuclear Empire (ch. 9 on Anti-Submarine Warfare), and his recent book America In Peril. Bob Aldridge got the third FOR-USA Martin Luther King Award for alerting us to the fact that the US aims to replace MAD with Nuclear Primacy, a Disarming First Strike Capability. It's suicidal because it inevitably leads to Launch On Warning, so the great Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge resigned. He knows what he is talking about. But facts don't matter, do they ???
Many people die either way. Once that genie is let out of the bottle, no one's putting it back in.
You seemingly have this on cut and paste.
I've seen you post this over and over – even in threads that have no relation to the story.
And no, I don't buy this.
If US nuclear primacy was this clear and cut dry, they wouldn't be concerned about walking on eggshells with Russia via Syria or further reductions in arsenals. There was a REAL report recently issued on the state of America's nuclear forces that paint a different picture entirely from Bob Aldrige's science fiction. What Bob Aldridge claims they can do on paper and what can actually physically be accomplished are two different things entirely – this has been a major problem with these expensive missile defense platforms which often involve schemes which defy the laws of physics and simply can't/don't work.
That's been covered here at antiwar.com & there have been whistle-blowers who've come forward saying these projects were a waste of money.
As long as America continues her aggressive stance, the Russians would be stupid to believe any sort of peace overture from this mutt.
Reducing the nuclear arsenal for Russia means further weakening its postion. Surrounded by a missile defence shield and the West refusing to guarantee not to use it against Russia means with less nukes Russia would even have less to retaliate a nuclear first strike by NATO. Furthermore NATO broke contracts and expanded right to the Russian border. And they want Ukraine to join, moving even closer and encircling Russia. NATO has not given up its preemtive nuclear first strike doctrine. Russia would be foolish to reduce its arsenal before they have enabled their ballistic missiles to safely surpass NATO's missile shield.