Announcements earlier this week that Russia and China have decided to
work together on a mutual missile detection system to detect inbound US
arms, a move that comes after the latest US ICBM test, is being
presented by Russia as proof of a “special relationship” between the two nations.
Between US long-range tests and the US withdrawing from the Intermediate
Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and beginning to talk of new developments
of arms on that front, both China and Russia are keenly aware they may
become targets of a US arms race. This mutual danger is bringing them
inevitably closer together.
China, for its part, has also said it wants to join the Arms Trade Treaty to get itself into line with international expectations.
President Trump has vowed to withdraw any US signature to the treaty,
and NRA opposition kept the Senate from ever ratifying it.
The treaty is intended to prevent arms trade fueling war crimes around
the world, which is particularly problematic for the US and its huge
arms trade to Saudi Arabia and other nations with checkered histories.
“President Trump has vowed to withdraw any US signature to the treaty, and NRA opposition kept the Senate from ever ratifying it.”
What? The NRA has skin in this game? War crimes are part of their thing now? I used to be a member of the NRA until they turned gun ownership into a fetish. Give it up. We shouldn’t be providing weapons to countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia who turn around and kill indigenous people for sport.