Posted on 06/06/2019 8:35:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said an Obama-era nuclear weapons pact would lapse unless the US took an interest in renewing it.
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) pact limits the number of deployed nuclear warheads, missiles and bombers and is due to expire in 2021 unless renewed. […]
The treaty limits the US and Russia to a maximum of 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, well below Cold War caps.
It was signed in 2010 by former US President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It is one of the key controls on superpower deployment of nuclear weapons. …
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Ping.
fine. overspending on SDI is what blew up the old soviet union. they couldn’t keep up. a conventional and nuclear arms race would finish off russia.
bring it.
............... As we get close to the election ... World leaders will begin to recoil at Trump’s Negotiations ..... And try to influence his agreements .....
As Ronald Reagan once told the Russians who tried to dictate to the US “NYET”. DJT can just tell Vlad to “Piss Up A Rope”.
Screw Putin. Technologically obsolete his ass, IMO.
Well, we can’t stop him.
We can bury him.
We’ll see whose technology wins in the end.
Who cares. Putin does not have the money for an arms race.
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