eagle1462010
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Sure dumbass.
Trump walked away from an agreement with his daddy.
No other president before him did.
So, why didn't anyone give up on "peace" in the middle east?
"Russia admitted to building a new missile system but wouldn’t let NATO inspect it".
You're FOS.
So far, 2019 is definitely not the best year for arms control, with the INF Treaty dead, the New START treaty extension in limbo and the Open Skies Treaty under increasing pressure.
However, a glimmer of hope appeared late last month when Russia’s Defense Ministry showed its new Avangard hypersonic missile system to U.S. inspectors under the provisions of the New START treaty.
Avangard — reportedly labeled the SS-19 Mod 4 by the U.S. — is one of Russia’s newest and most advanced weapons systems. President Vladimir Putin first announced its development in a March 2018 speech — along with a slew of other new weapons.
By all accounts, it must have been quite tricky for Russia to have followed each letter of the treaty when it allowed the recent U.S. inspection, as the Avangard likely uses both a new payload type as well as some modernization of the booster as well. It remains to be seen how satisfied the U.S. side will be.
It was you dear leader who walked away just like his daddy wanted him to.
NOW, who knows WTF they have, thanks Trump.
Nato accuses Russia of breaking nuclear missile treaty
The Nato alliance says Moscow is breaking a 1987 deal that rid Europe of land-based nuclear missiles.
www.bbc.com
Russia Says it Won’t Destroy Missiles U.S. Claims Break INF Treaty - The Moscow Times
Russia will not destroy its intermediate-range nuclear missiles that the United States claims violate an unraveling Cold War-era arms control treaty, its Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
www.themoscowtimes.com
The U.S. said last month it would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in six months unless Moscow ends what Washington says are violations of the 1987 pact. Russia, which denies flouting the accord and has accused Washington of breaking it itself, announced it was suspending the treaty.
“We can’t destroy the 9M729 [missile] complexes, which Washington had declared in violation of the treaty without any reason,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website.
The missile, the Novator 9M729, is known as the SSC-8 by NATO.