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Russia will no longer adhere to a defunct treaty with the United States prohibiting the deployment of intermediate-range missiles, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on August 4.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed in 1987 by United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, eliminated an entire class of ground-launched missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500km. As a result of the treaty, more than 2,600 Soviet and U.S. missiles were eliminated, in what was seen as a Cold War breakthrough.
In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow “no longer considers itself bound” by its “previously adopted self restrictions” under the INF Treaty, noting that the U.S. was moving to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe and Asia.
The ministry specifically cited U.S. plans to deploy medium-range Typhoon and Dark Eagle missile systems in Germany starting next year.
It said that as the U.S. and its allies were moving toward the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe and Asia, conditions for what it called its “unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons” were no longer in place.
In 2019, during President Trump’s first term, the U.S. pulled out of the INF treaty. At the time, Washington claimed that Russia had long been violating the treaty with the deployment of Novator 9M729 cruise missiles as part of the Iskander system. Moscow denied any knowledge of the violations.
The Russian decision to walk out of the treaty came just three days after Trump ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines in “appropriate regions” in response to a nuclear threat made online by Dmitri Medvedev, the former Russian president who is currently serving as the deputy chairman of the country’s security council.
In a post on X, Medvedev wrote: ‘The Russian foreign ministry’s statement on the withdrawal of the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range missiles is the result of NATO countries’ anti-Russian policy.”
“This is a new reality all our opponents will have to reckon with. Expect further steps,” he added, without elaborating on what these steps might look like.
Russia’s attempt to keep the INF Treaty alive, even after the U.S. unilateral move in 2019, was likely meant to avoid another nuclear arms race. Washington and the rest of NATO didn’t take note of that, however.
With the treaty over, there is nothing now preventing Russia from deploying nuclear-armed short and long-range missiles in the region of Kaliningrad, the Crimean Peninsula, the areas bordering the Baltic states or even in Belarus. Moscow considers these areas under direct threat by NATO. The deployment of such weapons there will, without a doubt, provide sufficient deterrence.
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good. the eu-nato imbeciles will now think thrice about threatening kaliningrad again.
why would they adhere to it when nato is moving into their back yard?
if you want to live, get out of moscow asap…heheheh
the jooz are living on borrowed time. they need to get their arses back to khazaria, pronto.
it would be better if they walk out of treaty allowing genocide of the jews. and have they not enough with “nukes” for to erase “us” from the surface, and solve the problems once for all ? of course, greta thunberg will complain about “climate warming” 😂 or was it “nuclear winter” 😂 technocrats are like worms, wiggling on the hook. strong indicia for the whole political parasite cast fouled by technocrats, and the “jew” einstein 😂 he mooned them all.
any agreement with the jooz or the jewsa isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. any verbal agreement with the jooz or the jewsa isn’t worth the paper it isn’t printed on, as marx (groucho) said.