Posted on 12/11/2001 12:30:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush has decided to give Russia notice that the United States will withdraw from the 1972 nuclear treaty that bans testing of missile defense systems, U.S. government officials said Tuesday. He will announce the decision in the next several days, effectively invoking a clause in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that requires the United States and Russia to give six months' notice before abandoning the pact.
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It no longer exists.
On the other hand, if Putin is taking the position that the Commonwealth of Independent States is the successor and assignee of all assets and obligations of prior regimes, then I'm gonna buy a whole bunch of those Tsarist bonds for a small percentage of their face value and ask him to redeem them.
In gold.
The rage will come from the American left.
like I said, expect much sabre rattling from Russia and China (!!LOL!!)
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