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US cruise missiles to return to Germany, angering Moscow
BBC ^ | July 11, 2024 | Paul Kirby

Posted on 07/11/2024 5:42:34 AM PDT by McGruff

Long-range US missiles are to be deployed periodically in Germany from 2026 for the first time since the Cold War, in a decision announced at Nato's 75th anniversary summit.

The Tomahawk cruise, SM-6 and hypersonic missiles have a significantly longer range than existing missiles, the US and Germany said in a joint statement.

Such missiles would have been banned under a 1988 treaty between the US and former Soviet Union, but the pact fell apart five years ago.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow would react with a "military reponse to the new threat".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events; Russia; War
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1 posted on 07/11/2024 5:42:34 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Stumbling and falling into WWIII.


2 posted on 07/11/2024 5:44:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: McGruff

Russia is mad? LOL. Russia and the US had a treaty not to deploy these, and then Russia pulled out of the treaty and now Russia is mad that they don’t have a treaty? Putin can go buy some big girl panties.


3 posted on 07/11/2024 5:45:47 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

How’s life in Germany?


4 posted on 07/11/2024 5:47:47 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: McGruff

They’re giving Trump more to negotiate with!


5 posted on 07/11/2024 5:52:22 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: McGruff
Wikipedia:
The US declared its intention to withdraw from the [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty] on 20 October 2018, citing the previous violations of the treaty by Russia.[7][12][13] This prompted Putin to state that Russia would not launch first in a nuclear conflict but would "annihilate" any adversary, essentially re-stating the policy of "Mutually Assured Destruction". Putin claimed Russians killed in such a conflict "will go to heaven as martyrs".[68]

6 posted on 07/11/2024 5:54:58 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: McGruff

Russia scrapped the treaty, and China wasn’t a party to it.


7 posted on 07/11/2024 5:55:19 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: MtnClimber

It almost seems as if... well, as if maybe... but it couldn’t be... that they WANT to provoke a war.


8 posted on 07/11/2024 5:55:43 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: McGruff

You can’t blame Russia for trying, iim most our enemy gets what they want when they throw a fit and the Dems are in charge.


9 posted on 07/11/2024 5:56:17 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: McGruff

We withdrew from the Treaty in 2019.


10 posted on 07/11/2024 5:59:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: McGruff

putin is evil

bombing, innocents, massacring, torturing, kidnapping children

pure evil


11 posted on 07/11/2024 6:02:43 AM PDT by Sunsong
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12 posted on 07/11/2024 6:03:50 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: McGruff

Putin violated the treaty. The U.S. under Trump left the treaty. All the U.S. is doing now is countering in Western Europe what Putin already has in range of Western Europe. Yet, Putin will still use his western media (like on this venue) propogandists to make himself out to be the victim.


13 posted on 07/11/2024 6:04:22 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Sunsong

Isn’t all of that true for the biden maladministration?


14 posted on 07/11/2024 6:05:32 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Thunder90

We pulled out of the treaty. Some time after, Russia pulled out.


15 posted on 07/11/2024 6:06:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Alter Kaker

Pretend Russia based their cruise missiles in Cuba.

RINOs and Dems would be as mad as a flock of mother hens after a heavy rain.


16 posted on 07/11/2024 6:07:52 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Sunsong

“putin is evil

bombing, innocents, massacring, torturing, kidnapping children

pure evil”
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You forgot about him having Ukrainian babies bayoneted. ;-)


17 posted on 07/11/2024 6:12:00 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-lMAX)
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To: Sacajaweau

“ We pulled out of the treaty. Some time after, Russia pulled out.”
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Would you PLEASE stop confusing people with facts! ;-)


18 posted on 07/11/2024 6:15:29 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-lMAX)
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To: McGruff

Sadly, the Dems know only a major war can save them......


19 posted on 07/11/2024 6:17:00 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: House Atreides

https://apnews.com/article/russia-us-missiles-treaty-56adac2df74be4b53c56bcc887ee89f8


20 posted on 07/11/2024 6:18:55 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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