Putin officially suspends Russia's compliance with arms treaty after US withdrawal

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 03/04/19 10:27 AM EST

Russian President Vladimir Putin officially ended his country's participation in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty Monday after the U.S. withdrew from the agreement last month.

Link to tweet

The White House announced its decision to stop complying with the 1987 arms treaty in a statement from President Trump on Feb. 1.

The Trump administration has accused Russia of violating the treaty, which bans the creation and maintenance of nuclear and conventional ground-launch ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 300 and 3,400 miles, since 2014.

The European Union has also accused Russia of violating the treaty. Russia has repeatedly denied the allegations.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/432453-putin-officially-suspends-russias-compliance-with-arms-treaty

[Shell_Seas]

1. This should be fun for all us younger folks who never got to live through the cold war or...

were too young to remember it. We don't have to read about history in books, now we can just relive it! Weeee.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. That's second deal tRump's broken outright. No NK deal. NAFTA 2.0 is just a tweak. Some art!

Breaking the Iran Treaty was the first, I think. I might not be remembering some and there are surely more failed attempts at deals too.

[Botany]

3. My prediction

Shortly Putin and Trump will hold a photo op meeting and they will have
a public signing of the exact same deal again ... it its all kabuki.

[Javaman]

5. very good piece of insight.

but I don't think the orange asshole is that clever. putin yes.

[Botany]

6. Trump is an idiot but he knows all about getting "face time" in the media and he will do ...

... whatever Putin tells him to do too.

[nycbos]

4. Ze whole point of the doomsday machine is lost...

... if you keep it a secret.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. On a serious note, Russia has viotlated this treaty by continuing to develop outlawed ...

weapons (and better supposedly). However, I would imagine that there are stipulations within the treaty to deal with such violations. I do kind of question Russia's ability to do something like this (spending the money) since the US Economy is 25 times larger than Russia.

[Blue_Tires]

8. Trump is Putin's stooge