escalation
Disarming a gunman is an escalation now?
But nobody is disarming the USA
Out of left field with the US talking point.
They should try it the same way Ukraine did. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
The base houses strategic nuclear bombers, and the reason the bombers were in the open is due to Russian compliance with the START treaty. This isn’t disarming Russia in any way that helps Ukraine, and it’s a massive escalation of the proxy war between NATO and Russia.
the reason the bombers were in the open is due to Russian compliance with the START treaty.
First, Russia suspended it’s participation in new START
Second, are you sure that’s a requirement of the treaty?
The only relevant article I could find is the following (emphasis mine):
Article X
- For the purpose of ensuring verification of compliance with the provisions of this Treaty, each Party undertakes: (a) to use national technical means of verification at its disposal in a manner consistent with generally recognized principles of international law; (b) not to interfere with the national technical means of verification of the other Party operating in accordance with this Article; and © not to use concealment measures that impede verification, by national technical means of verification, of compliance with the provisions of this Treaty.
- The obligation not to use concealment measures includes the obligation not to use them at test ranges, including measures that result in the concealment of ICBMs, SLBMs, ICBM launchers, or the association between ICBMs or SLBMs and their launchers during testing. The obligation not to use concealment measures shall not apply to cover or concealment practices at ICBM bases or to the use of environmental shelters for strategic offensive arms.
Looks to me like plane hangars are allowed while the tires on planes that they actually used are illegal as they don’t protect against the weather and just exist to fool bad satellite images.
Ukraine, not Russia, represents an existential threat to humanity.
Oh fuck off, Scott Ritter.
This is a riot, I bet you wish Scott Ritter was the least of your worries. This blubbering man who still worships the American military, and can only state his objections to war in libertarian terms e.g. threat of nuclear war & taxpayer spending. No, it’s just that to express common sense in the American political establishment you first need to cross over into nationalist neocon psycho territory, or be labelled a traitor, especially by the post-Obama left that would make Joe McCarthy blush with their persecutory fantasies. You people are so beyond fucked.
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