As much as I dislike Russia, I don’t see how a treaty made with a different and defunct country (the U.S.S.R) applies to them now.
Right. And they’re not keeping the Minsk Agreement either. So old treaties and new agreements just don’t apply to them. It’s nice to be able to be situational in our ethics. It’s kind of like Liberal ethics.
The article fails as a complete report.
While the report uses the term “return to compliance” with the 1987 treaty, now, and cited as hoped by the previous administration, it fails to disclose if any separate Russian government had agreed to, or was previously complying with the agreement.
It presents no time frame as to when compliance with the 1987 treaty ceased on the part of Russia. Is it that there was compliance, for some time after 1987, but it ended, on the part of subsequent Russian government later? When? Why else would the operative phrase be “return to compliance” with the treaty?
Has there been any subsequent U.S.-Russia agreements that pledged to honor the 1987 agreement made with the Soviets? That too you would think a complete report would either mention or mention it never happened.
You apparently don't know very much about Putin. The guy has been in the process of restoring the evil empire for over a decade now. Only this time it will include positions in the strategic oil/gas-rich Middle East. The Russians are pretty good chess players, while most of us, it seems, suck at simple checkers.
I agree with you, sort of....
The current government are the successor government who assumed all of the liabilities of the previous as a condition of taking control of the armed forces.
The Soviet Union's successor (Russia) simply has to announce it is withdrawing from the Treaty. Yet it has not, meaning that the treaty is still in effect.