U.S. pulls out of Soviet-era nuclear missile pact with Russia
The United States formally withdrew from a landmark nuclear missile pact with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was in violation of the treaty, something the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.
Washington signalled it would pull out of the arms control treaty six months ago unless Moscow stuck to the accord. Russia called the move a ploy to exit a pact the United States wanted to leave anyway in order to develop new missiles.
The 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was negotiated by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by RamiK on Saturday August 03 2019, @09:57AM (5 children)
It would take historians decades to quantify and qualify that statement. Forcing other parties to do what you want leaves you as a common enemy between the people who refused and those who had no choice but to agree. So now they won't join your bans on Chinese companies. They won't cooperate on your attempts to more strictly regulate banking and cryptocurrency to fight tax evasion and money laundering. They won't sign with your companies on long term contracts. They won't join your war coalitions. They'll favor third parties for energy imports. They won't adopt your regulations so your nations products will gradually lose their competitive edge...
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 03 2019, @01:14PM (3 children)
Man, please. Russia does what it does because Putin thinks it is good for Russia. When he concedes anything to us, it's because he wants something else. Ditto China. Any "let's not offend them in pursuit of a goal" talk is just fear and stupidity.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by RamiK on Saturday August 03 2019, @03:06PM (2 children)
Russia and China aren't the ones you shouldn't offend. Ditching the nuclear disarmament agreements isn't a threat for China or Russia. They're already in the mutual annihilation tier. What it does instead is to reinforce the post Georgia and Ukraine impression that that the US won't protect its proxies with its military. And when those allies start arming themselves with nukes or switch to the Russians and Chinese for protection, they tend to stop buying American goods.
It's sorta like a contemporary variation on domino theory and the containment.
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(Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Saturday August 03 2019, @06:52PM
What American goods? Even iPhones are actually produced in China.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday August 03 2019, @09:05PM
Like Turkey.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @01:59PM
That is tmb for ya, makes sweeping statements that are impossible to prove and trests them like gospel truth, and you're an idiot if you don't take it the same way.