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Russia will no longer adhere to a defunct treaty with the United States prohibiting the deployment of intermediate-range missiles, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on August 4.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed in 1987 by United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, eliminated an entire class of ground-launched missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500km. As a result of the treaty, more than 2,600 Soviet and U.S. missiles were eliminated, in what was seen as a Cold War breakthrough.
In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow “no longer considers itself bound” by its “previously adopted self restrictions” under the INF Treaty, noting that the U.S. was moving to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe and Asia.
The ministry specifically cited U.S. plans to deploy medium-range Typhoon and Dark Eagle missile systems in Germany starting next year.
It said that as the U.S. and its allies were moving toward the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe and Asia, conditions for what it called its “unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons” were no longer in place.
In 2019, during President Trump’s first term, the U.S. pulled out of the INF treaty. At the time, Washington claimed that Russia had long been violating the treaty with the deployment of Novator 9M729 cruise missiles as part of the Iskander system. Moscow denied any knowledge of the violations.
The Russian decision to walk out of the treaty came just three days after Trump ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines in “appropriate regions” in response to a nuclear threat made online by Dmitri Medvedev, the former Russian president who is currently serving as the deputy chairman of the country’s security council.
In a post on X, Medvedev wrote: ‘The Russian foreign ministry’s statement on the withdrawal of the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range missiles is the result of NATO countries’ anti-Russian policy.”
“This is a new reality all our opponents will have to reckon with. Expect further steps,” he added, without elaborating on what these steps might look like.
Russia’s attempt to keep the INF Treaty alive, even after the U.S. unilateral move in 2019, was likely meant to avoid another nuclear arms race. Washington and the rest of NATO didn’t take note of that, however.
With the treaty over, there is nothing now preventing Russia from deploying nuclear-armed short and long-range missiles in the region of Kaliningrad, the Crimean Peninsula, the areas bordering the Baltic states or even in Belarus. Moscow considers these areas under direct threat by NATO. The deployment of such weapons there will, without a doubt, provide sufficient deterrence.
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good. the eu-nato imbeciles will now think thrice about threatening kaliningrad again.
baltik sea may be the reason for this.
so russia can bomb german berlin again.
why would they adhere to it when nato is moving into their back yard?
the west will claim that russia dared to put their country so close to nato borders and shift the blame
yes, they are pathological. and this site seems to have something against brothers marx, and their way to show that the language is a lie. not much for artistic freedom, are you ?
if you want to live, get out of moscow asap…heheheh
the jooz are living on borrowed time. they need to get their arses back to khazaria, pronto.
using the same ‘winning’ tactics that led to the current state of the us and eu, retarded bozo the clown and his pals lie endlessly and reject reality outright. why? because confronting the truth would hurt too much. they’ve become laughable—like magnets that only point the wrong way. and naturally, they refuse to see it.
it would be better if they walk out of treaty allowing genocide of the jews. and have they not enough with “nukes” for to erase “us” from the surface, and solve the problems once for all ? of course, greta thunberg will complain about “climate warming” 😂 or was it “nuclear winter” 😂 technocrats are like worms, wiggling on the hook. strong indicia for the whole political parasite cast fouled by technocrats, and the “jew” einstein 😂 he mooned them all.
any agreement with the jooz or the jewsa isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. any verbal agreement with the jooz or the jewsa isn’t worth the paper it isn’t printed on, as marx (groucho) said.
he should know julius and his whole family were jewish -mother german jew ,father french jew.
maybe the mother then was german, and the father was french. without the “jew” hoax. since 800 years back, the word “jew” have nothing to do with the native people in palestine. and for most of the “jews” in europe, it have nothing to do with the fictional “jews” russia unfortunately created by convert the bandite tribe khazars. you recognize them by you can not trust a word from them. brothers marx are very trustworthy, because they show you what the language are, a form of lying.
in a day russia city’s would disapear
baltik sea may be the reason for this.
so russia can bomb german berlin again!
putina the ruszion highpriest of the khazarian synagoge of satan search tridents?
friedrich nietzsche was right, the christians pity are a deadly sin. they pity anything, look out, so they not send a new hord of german cannibals to steal your land, from fictional biblical fairy tales, out of pure pity ! maybe they “discover” you ! they pity the nazis 😂 when a entity start a biblical genocide, blow it from the surface. start with “us” and “israel”. the source, and the continuation of nazi germany.
tramp, the peace president. what a f’ing joke he is. he’s done more to cause possible nuclear confrontation than any president in over 70 years. he’s has exceeded even bush, obama and biden. they were war mongers, but he’s all for peace…nobel peace prize…for stupidest, most idiotic war monger ever. quite a title, but there is more to come from his neocon zionist regime. if iran has any sense they will eliminate every us base if they get the chance.
chumpo is the worst president in history. even creepy joe biden was better.
agree about the bases, blow them to hell. and iran did not finish the job in “israel”, they are maybe not well informed about nazis. such must be erased, else they continue with their hobbies in concentration camps. nobel peace prize, or he nukes them 😂 he is clearly pathological, i stumble upon carl jungs description of him.