Posted on 02/15/2015 8:56:19 AM PST by Rusty0604
"Five or six minutes can be enough time, if you have trust, if you have communication and if you can put this machinery immediately to work," former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on the sidelines of last weekend's Munich Security Conference. Unfortunately, he argued, this machinery works very poorly today, and there is great mistrust.
Deep mistrust has developed between the West and Russia, and it is having a massive effect on cooperation on security matters.
In November 2014, the Russians announced that they would boycott the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in the United States. In December, the US Congress voted, for the first time in 25 years, not to approve funding to safeguard nuclear materials in the Russian Federation. A few days later, the Russians terminated cooperation in almost all aspects of nuclear security. The two sides had cooperated successfully for almost two decades. But that is now a thing of the past.
Instead, Russia and the United States are investing giant sums of money to modernize their nuclear arsenals, and NATO recently announced that it was rethinking its nuclear strategy. At the same time, risky encounters between Eastern and Western troops, especially in the air, are becoming more and more common, a report by the European Leadership Network (ELN) recently concluded.
"Civilian pilots don't know how to deal with this," explains ELN Chair Des Browne, a former British defense minister. "One of these incidents could easily escalate.
"Trust has been eroded to the point of almost being destroyed," said Nunn. "You got a war going on right in the middle of Europe. You got a breakdown of the conventional forces treaty, you got the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) treaty under great strain, you got tactical nuclear weapons all over Europe. It's a very dangerous situation."
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See, you silly, ignorant slobs just didn’t realize that the “Reset” button was mean’t to take us back to 1962.
The last post should have had a /s
That’s unpossible. Emperor Nero Kardashain Narcissus is universally loved worldwide, nothing bad could ever happen with him in charge
And we are lead by the monkey with a hand grenade.
One year, billion$ on Intel in the West, and no evidence that Russia has invaded. http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/02/trapped-in-a-narrative/
Interesting website you have there. Apart from spewing pro-Putin propaganda, this conspiracy minded populist website is cheerleading Greece’s new freeloading socialist government.
Understood. Nevertheless, is a war being contrived by the Obama Regime?
Hardly. Obama wants nothing to do with what’s happening in Ukraine. His statements about “strategic patience” and military force not being the solution to anything make that quite clear. To claim that Obama is some kind of war monger and that Putin is a gentle flower doing his best to survive in cruel NATO dominated world is beyond absurd.
If I were Russia or China, and I wanted to kick some American butt, now would be the time to do it, because we have the absolute weakest and the most anti-American president in U.S. history at the helm.
One day Vlad, the chicoms, or especially the raghead Iranians or the NORKs, are going to wake up and decide the sissy-boy kenyan in the white hut doesn't have the stones to do anything and they will eliminate an American city in a blinding flash.
0bama will bow and go back to his golf game.
“But if a similar incident occurred today, as US arms expert Theodore Postol warned recently”
This is the SAME GUY that has spent his career saying that intercepting missiles is IMPOSSIBLE. He is now a VERY SICK MAN. He called virtually all of the Israeli intercepts phoney because he wasn’t supplied with tracking data from Israel, so he ‘figured’ they were ‘covering up’ something.
Way to go Obama.
Hahahah. Just wait til the Iranians are players.
That’s good to know.
This guy is creating issues throughout Ukraine...when they tried to disban the two neo-nazi groups they set tire fires to the Ministry in Kiev....they are nothing but trouble and will do what they can to make certain the cease-fire does not work......
Additionally.....Andrey Kelin said at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Friday at the moment there can be no certainty the paramilitaries on the big business tycoons’ payroll would support a peace settlement in Ukraine. "How can one guarantee the armed groups not subordinate to the central command in Kiev will agree to obey anything?" he asked. "In fact, they are the armed groups mentioned in the Minsk Accords. There is no certainty that they will support a peace, diplomatic settlement, the way we did," Kelin said. "They must be disarmed and pulled out of the zone of the conflict.".
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