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1. The US never bothered to prove their allegations 2. The US’s ABM batteries are more likely to be afoul of the INF 3. The Ruskies invited the US to explain wh
by fixvzbdjzis 8y ago
1. The US never bothered to prove their allegations
2. The US’s ABM batteries are more likely to be afoul of the INF
3. The Ruskies invited the US to explain what concerned them about their missles - they never answered.
3. The US - particularly the folks in charge now - has a history of withdrawing from arms control treaties (see ABM)
4. The US has a history of telling ridiculous lies about arms control (See ABM treaty, and how the Ruskies called all the US’s bluffs)
5. The US has already started attacking another treaty (weapons in space ban).
So the US doesn’t supply proof. Has a history of tearing treaties. Has been almost surely in violation of the INF for some time. Is poking holes in the last few remaining treaties.
But don’t worry about Armageddon: w/out an arms treaty, launching the thousands of obsolete ICBMs loaded with tungsten carbide bearings into orbit solves any countries’ security concerns vis a vis space ;)
- lostmsu 8y agoWhat a load of BS. The proof, that Russia violated the treaty in 2014 is mentioned in the article.
- fixvzbdjzis 8y agoNo it’s not. The allegations the US lobbed w/out providing evidence are repeated by an article written by a US military contractor. That’s not mathematical proof, evidentiary proof or really any bloody evidence at all. Anyway opinion doesn’t matter at all: All that matters is that the Russians know if they violated the INF or not, and the US knows if we’re lying that they did or not. The INF was a treaty for Europeans and Russians. The US is too far to be threatened by an INF missile. So if they were lying, it was inconsequential to the US, except as leverage to tell the EU to buy more weapons cause you can’t trust the Ruskie. If we’re lying, that’s very aggressive because the INF means something to the Ruskies; we demonstrated to the Russians we can not be trusted with nuclear security and therefor opened a whole can of hurt.