Does this look like a friend and partner to you?
I am just not comfortable with neither the reductions, nor in trusting Russia to truly abide by the agreement, at least on face value. What currently maintains their status as a superpower are their nuclear forces.
I am HIGHLY skeptical that they would follow through on the reduction.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE5653M320090706
U.S.-Russia nuclear deal - spin or deep cuts?
Mon Jul 6, 2009 11:07am EDT
By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev agreed on Monday to cut vast Cold War arsenals of operationally deployed nuclear warheads to 1,500-1675.
The pledge by Obama and Medvedev puts the world's two biggest nuclear powers further along the path to finding a replacement for the landmark 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1) which expires on December 5.
But the cuts announced on Monday only take the United States and Russia 25 operationally deployed warheads below the 1,700-2,200 range which both sides agreed to reach by 2012 under the 2002 Moscow Treaty...
I am HIGHLY skeptical that they would follow through on the reduction.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE5653M320090706
U.S.-Russia nuclear deal - spin or deep cuts?
Mon Jul 6, 2009 11:07am EDT
By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev agreed on Monday to cut vast Cold War arsenals of operationally deployed nuclear warheads to 1,500-1675.
The pledge by Obama and Medvedev puts the world's two biggest nuclear powers further along the path to finding a replacement for the landmark 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1) which expires on December 5.
But the cuts announced on Monday only take the United States and Russia 25 operationally deployed warheads below the 1,700-2,200 range which both sides agreed to reach by 2012 under the 2002 Moscow Treaty...
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