A meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in Brussels ended Friday failing to agree on the continued dispute surrounding the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, leaving the matter unresolved. US officials indicate they’ll withdraw from INF in the next two weeks.
The entire issue surrounding the INF is a claimed Russian violation
based on a new missile system and US speculation about the missile’s
hypothetical maximum range. NATO backed the US claims of a violation,
and there’s really been no progress since.
Russia has offered some access to the missiles, including putting one on
display publicly in Moscow for foreign military attaches and foreign
journalists to review. The US insisted that this wouldn’t be enough.
The US says they will ditch the treaty if Russia doesn’t end the
violation, and at this point that’s only doable by totally disarming
their short-range ballistic missiles in the next week, something they
clearly won’t do.
Interesting sequence of events. First US decided to withdraw from om the Treaty. Then it decided that it did not want the blame, so anything would do — find a missile to accuse of violation. Russia is pleading — to no avail. US pulls out of INF, approves massive StarvWars II, and money out of the big Pentagon budget starts flowing. More money needed, and more. Why? Because a missile in Russia is out of range?
The reason is the same one as the fit against Huawei — catastrophic security failure, scientific and technoligical failure. Four new-gen weapons classes announced in March, two already tested and deployed by December, third in testing and planned deployment, and fourth — now actually named, will be in trials soon. And here again — where was intelligence? Too busy coming up with gossip on Trump and Russia collusion. Too confident in our military advantages to notice? Now, there will be arms control meeting around UN meeting in Beijing. Surprise. Just as 5G network cannot be stopped, neither will Poseidon.
As long as peace is removed form any US actions, they will be carried out. The ABM Treaty ,which Pres. Putin warned Dubya Bush about, was dropped in 2002, the INF Treaty now, the agreement about avoiding wars in space is tossed out after fifty years. Pres. Putin does his best to avoid wars and conflict, and his country is “sanctioned” and abused, blamed for ridiculous actions like the “Skripal poison” or “interfering with US elections/democracy!!” while the USA sails on, invading and destroying as many countries as possible while helping nobody except Israel and the military industrial complex of the USA.
Washington is on a path to destroy the planet. Logic, sincerity, and reason are not playing a part.
the good ole usa , pointing fingers at everyone while ignoring the ones pointing back at it. smh. peace is a foreign concept the d.c.