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Russia 'deploys cruise missile in violation of landmark arms control treaty with US'
The Telegraph ^ | February 14, 2017 | By David Lawler

Posted on 02/14/2017 1:00:54 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Russia has covertly deployed a new, fully operational cruise missile in an apparent violation of an arms control treaty, US officials have claimed.

Barack Obama wrote to President Vladimir Putin after Russia tested the missile in 2014, contending that the test violated the landmark 1897 accord that banned the US and Soviet Union from using intermediate and shorter-range missiles and helped bring the Cold War to a close.

The Russians appear to have disregarded the warning, and the missile has now been deployed according to the New York Times.

Administration officials told the newspaper that Russia has one battalion of the missile at a test site in Southeastern Russia, while a second has been moved to an operational base.

Donald Trump will now be tasked with responding to Russia's decision to deploy the prohibited missile. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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This story began with the New York Times so it's difficult to say how valid it is.
1 posted on 02/14/2017 1:00:54 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“Administration officials” ?? What department, what officials? I would first suspect that the NY Times, and certain bureaucrats, are trying to reignite the Cold war. Or even a hot war. So they can blame it on Trump.


2 posted on 02/14/2017 1:04:10 PM PST by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
0bama drew a line in the line, whoda thought?
3 posted on 02/14/2017 1:06:03 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Cruise missiles have been banned since 1897? The NYT nails it again!


4 posted on 02/14/2017 1:06:32 PM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

1st 3 paragraphs are about the violation under Obama.

The last 9 paragraphs are about Pres.Trump & his staff being tied to Russia...

Time to step up to this and out anyone remotely involved and I’m not talking about Pres. Trump and his appointees......


5 posted on 02/14/2017 1:06:57 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

1897??


6 posted on 02/14/2017 1:07:08 PM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: TYVets

How about a line in the sand


7 posted on 02/14/2017 1:07:13 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Is Russia even bound by treaties entered into by the Czar? There have been a lot of changes in management since 1897, and certainly a lot of changes in missile technology.

the landmark 1897 accord that banned the US and Soviet Union

Or, perhaps, British journalists are as big a bunch of idiots as US journalists. I won't believe it until RT covers it.

8 posted on 02/14/2017 1:10:39 PM PST by PAR35
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that the test violated the landmark 1897 accord

Technology back then was more advanced than I was led to believe.

9 posted on 02/14/2017 1:14:06 PM PST by gdani
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Such a shame, really, that the missile treaty between President McKinley and Tsar Nicholas II couldn’t last more than 130 years.


10 posted on 02/14/2017 1:16:15 PM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Remember what Comm-rad Stain said , “Treaties are like the crust of a pie. You have to be broken to get at the Goodies inside the pie.”
11 posted on 02/14/2017 1:18:02 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; All

Vlad picked a good time to test America.


12 posted on 02/14/2017 1:18:43 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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...contending that the test violated the landmark 1897 accord...

Brits still haven't gotten over bombarding Fort McHenry.

13 posted on 02/14/2017 1:18:53 PM PST by Jonah Hex
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To: SolidRedState

“1897” is in the original.

#FakeNews strikes again.


14 posted on 02/14/2017 1:19:05 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Uncle Miltie; SolidRedState; PAR35; gdani

We’re a bunch of smart-asses.

Beats the alternative (lookin’ at the fake media dumb-asses).


15 posted on 02/14/2017 1:21:31 PM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I’m seeing all sorts of published dirt posted about Russia these days.

Long range bombers were flying in international airspace off Britain’s coast.

Yesterday I got a text message from FoxNews that Russia had a spying ship off the East Coast.

Now this cruise missile story is published.

Two of three of these things are absolutely non-events. Those reports cause me to question the third.

What is really going on here?

Man the media wants WWIII. What the heck is that all about?

Is that the only way they can become relevant again?

Obama, McCain, Clinton, Amnesty International, the U.S. MSM... the list grows longer the number of entities that seem to want WWIII.

Maybe we should drop some bombs on them and pal up with Russia.

I know this will tweak the Putin haters. I’m not fond of him either, but this ramp up the WWIII talk, is more dangerous than he is.


16 posted on 02/14/2017 1:30:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: gdani
Technology back then was more advanced than I was led to believe.

Listen to the "Star Spangled Banner" again. Wasn't Key writing about cruise missiles? "The rocket's red glare..." /s

17 posted on 02/14/2017 1:31:46 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The Russians have no regard for treaties.


18 posted on 02/14/2017 1:47:18 PM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: MeganC
Cruise missiles have been banned since 1897?

Must have been written by Jules Verne. That guy really was ahead of his time!

19 posted on 02/14/2017 2:51:47 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

1897 Treaty, Huh?


20 posted on 02/14/2017 2:59:13 PM PST by dforest
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