More Cold War Rhetoric
I may be labouring the point here, but this is a reality we had better get used to.
Hat Tip La Russophobe
MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian general said Thursday that Moscow may unilaterally opt out of a Soviet-era arms reduction treaty with the United States, Russian news agencies reported.
Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff, was quoted by ITAR-Tass and Interfax as saying that Russia could pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, negotiated between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
He said the decision would depend on the United States' actions with its proposed missile defense system, parts of which Washington is seeking to deploy in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The treaty eliminated an entire class of medium-range missiles that had been based in Europe.
Baluyevsky's comments come after President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that the INF treaty no longer serves Russia's interests.
Hat Tip La Russophobe
MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian general said Thursday that Moscow may unilaterally opt out of a Soviet-era arms reduction treaty with the United States, Russian news agencies reported.
Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff, was quoted by ITAR-Tass and Interfax as saying that Russia could pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, negotiated between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
He said the decision would depend on the United States' actions with its proposed missile defense system, parts of which Washington is seeking to deploy in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The treaty eliminated an entire class of medium-range missiles that had been based in Europe.
Baluyevsky's comments come after President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that the INF treaty no longer serves Russia's interests.
posted by Trevor Loudon at
2/16/2007 01:02:00 PM
3 Comments:
I may be labouring the point here, but this is a reality we had better get used to.
Oh, we are.
Reds are under my bed. Got it. Stop telling me now?
You can always be relied on for blunt honesty Rick.
What do you think I shoud be writing about?
Of course.
Don't ask me. Today I blogged about a type of Australian desert grass. :(
But I'll think about it.
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