NATO is demanding that Russia unconditionally destroy all of its 9k729 cruise missiles by
August, or face unspecific repercussions. Officials conceded that there
was no expectation Russia would actually destroy those missiles.
The 9k729 missiles are the source of US accusations that Russia was
violating the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Russia denied
they were in violation, and insisted they were shorter range than the
treaty covered.
At any rate, this no longer should matter, since the US already
announced they are withdrawing from the INF, so there is no reason to
expect Russia would consider itself bound by a treaty with no other
signatories.
US Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison told reporters that “all options are
on the table” in retaliation, but for the time being, the US is only
considering “conventional systems,” and not an immediate nuclear
response.
The underlying threat is that the US, or NATO in general, are going to
put nuclear arms on the Russian border, which the INF wouldn’t have
allowed, but which they are no longer abiding by. Russia has warned this
would create a crisis on the level of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Only the US can have weapons. The rest of the world must disarm.
Disarm OR Purchase weapons from USA.
Antiwar news is becoming like reading your autopsy before you die.
This seems to be the new reality in the US. drop out of a treaty , but expect the other signatories are still bound by it! As NATO itself is not a signatory to the Treaty they have no lawful right to even comment.
Those Whom the Gods Would Destroy They First Make Mad
good one
My mother used to repeat this quote but differently. “Those whom the gods would destroy they first make drunk with power.”
I think NATO might want to specify where, and how, those missiles are destroyed. Careful what you wish for…
This would be laughable if not so serious!
US Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison, the master of trite slogans, “all options are on the table,” or previously,”we will have to “take out’ the Russian missiles.”
She does not have a clue as to the meaning of what she is babbling. Gad, the incompetence of this ziocon admiin is stunning.
Well, I guess not too surprising, we had nuland in this position several years back-does not seem to be a position of overriding importance.
Whoever is right or wrong in this developing confrontation, it is mistaken to compare it to the Cuban Missile Crisis: While tensions were high in 1962 the parties were able to avoid nuclear Armageddon, as they did in the Euro Missile Crisis twenty years later. Today’s crisis is different. The nuclear powers are increasingly unable to prevent the scenarios where Mutual Assured Destruction might have to be resorted to. War could be triggered at many points – Iran, Syria, South China Sea, Europe. We will eventually face the scenario where one protagonist will not be able to step back from the brink, blindly stumbling into a situation they cannot de-escalate. All that is left is Deterrence’s fall-back position – annihilation.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
Soviet Union installing highly classified, state of the art ICBMs on a small island 90 miles off Florida. An island with a 45 sq mi full spectrum US military base on one end.
That makes sense?
Yet Another Hoax.
Well, it certainly would have been a hoax if the story had been that the Soviets were installing ICBMs. But that wasn’t the story. The story was that they were installing medium- and intermediate-range missiles.
The hubris and utter lack of wisdom is horrifying.
I’d love to hear a rational, concrete explanation of why we’d need to station more conventional arms near Russia, and how it would benefit us and increase security and safety. Doesn’t exist, but still.
Just the beginning – soon they will demand that the Russian military destroy all rifles capable of firing at rates of more than one bullet per minute; any naval vessel displacing more than fifty cubic feet of water; or any airplane capable of flying more 100 knots/hour.
Message to Europeans: Disband NATO and kick out all American military presence – if you care about your society and lands. It is time to trust Russia and treat them like the good people they are. They are better than Americans.
A new nuclear arms race is another “done deal” and no amount of Trump’s “wanting” to “get along with Russia” is going to change that. Corporations will make money off this to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and that overrides any other considerations.
The INF was a ruse from the beginning.
Ground launched cruise missiles with conventional warheads are A-OK.
The same GLCM’s with a nuclear warheads are not okay.
The INF never affected sea or air launched cruise missiles.
With modular systems all the rage, since the nineties, it’s easy to switch out conventional warheads for nuclear warheads.
The MLRS system could fire conventional warheads or nuclear warheads. The six pack of ammo contained identification that informed the weapons platform of the warhead’s nature. A nuclear six pack could not be fired without a high level of approval.
There is only one nation that has ever used nuclear weapons on civilian population centers. USA! USA!
The USA really does seem to want to rule /ruin the whole world.
US Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison has already shown her typical US overkill-another Pompass “diplomat” pushing the already gross excesses of an obsolete NATO to ensure no peace or negotiations are ever possible.
Kind of hard to do when you can’t recruit enough troops who are willing to go off and die in some foreign occupation.
I believe PNAC called it “full spectrum dominance”, which I believe they stole from a brothel outside of Reno.
And I demand that NATO destroy all their cruise missiles.
I assume this means that NATO (including the US) will destroy its cruise missiles as well?
The 9k729 missile is a ballistic missile, not a cruise missile.
This missile may be a problem. Cruise missiles might be too. However, we can’t know which this story meant to be about. Perhaps both?