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Trump continues to be Putin’s puppet. Barry and company would put out their eye with a spoon before withdrawing from a sacred treaty written on unicorn hide. The last sentence says it all, “The formal U.S. withdrawal will, of course, stoke talk of a renewed U.S.–Russia arms race.” So, the Russians and Chinese can build intermediate range missiles, but the US shouldn’t because we would be setting a bad example.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mike-pompeo-us-withdrawal-inf-treaty/
Mike Pompeo Says Good Riddance to the INF Treaty
And hits the Russians for their persistent noncompliance.
Bangkok — It’s official: The U.S. is out of the INF Treaty.
Here at the annual conference of ASEAN, the organization of Southeast Asian countries, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told National Review that the U.S. has triggered its formal withdrawal from the treaty.
President Trump announced the imminent U.S. exit last October, starting the clock ticking toward the official date six months later, or today.
Signed in 1987, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was a key agreement in the late 1980s Reagan–Gorbachev diplomacy that proved the endgame of the Cold War.
After the Soviets deployed intermediate-range SS-20 missiles that could hit NATO countries from bases in the Soviet Union, the U.S. countered with its own intermediate-range missiles in Europe. President Ronald Reagan proposed the “zero option” to eliminate such U.S. and Soviet systems, and the INF Treaty did just that.
The Russians have been flagrantly violating the treaty for years, and it doesn’t apply to China, which has massively built up its missile program, including intermediate-range systems.
“Six months ago now,” Pompeo told NR, “after years of discussion with the Russians about their noncompliance, we put them on notice that if they didn’t come back into compliance that we would do what we’re [doing today].
“When I say ‘we,’” he continued, “not only the United States, but the European countries, Jens Stoltenberg [the secretary general of NATO], we have all done our level best to convince the Russians that it was in their best interests to come back into compliance with the INF Treaty, and they have done literally nothing — literally nothing.”
There is no question about the extensive evidence of Russian cheating. “No one inside of NATO or the EU has any doubt,” Pompeo said. “We all have the same data set, and there’s complete unanimity.”
The formal U.S. withdrawal will, of course, stoke talk of a renewed U.S.–Russia arms race.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mike-pompeo-us-withdrawal-inf-treaty/
Mike Pompeo Says Good Riddance to the INF Treaty
And hits the Russians for their persistent noncompliance.
Bangkok — It’s official: The U.S. is out of the INF Treaty.
Here at the annual conference of ASEAN, the organization of Southeast Asian countries, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told National Review that the U.S. has triggered its formal withdrawal from the treaty.
President Trump announced the imminent U.S. exit last October, starting the clock ticking toward the official date six months later, or today.
Signed in 1987, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was a key agreement in the late 1980s Reagan–Gorbachev diplomacy that proved the endgame of the Cold War.
After the Soviets deployed intermediate-range SS-20 missiles that could hit NATO countries from bases in the Soviet Union, the U.S. countered with its own intermediate-range missiles in Europe. President Ronald Reagan proposed the “zero option” to eliminate such U.S. and Soviet systems, and the INF Treaty did just that.
The Russians have been flagrantly violating the treaty for years, and it doesn’t apply to China, which has massively built up its missile program, including intermediate-range systems.
“Six months ago now,” Pompeo told NR, “after years of discussion with the Russians about their noncompliance, we put them on notice that if they didn’t come back into compliance that we would do what we’re [doing today].
“When I say ‘we,’” he continued, “not only the United States, but the European countries, Jens Stoltenberg [the secretary general of NATO], we have all done our level best to convince the Russians that it was in their best interests to come back into compliance with the INF Treaty, and they have done literally nothing — literally nothing.”
There is no question about the extensive evidence of Russian cheating. “No one inside of NATO or the EU has any doubt,” Pompeo said. “We all have the same data set, and there’s complete unanimity.”
The formal U.S. withdrawal will, of course, stoke talk of a renewed U.S.–Russia arms race.
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