Russian Cruise Missile, Deployed Secretly, Violates Treaty, Officials Say
Source: NYT
WASHINGTON Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints from American officials that it violates a landmark arms control treaty that helped seal the end of the Cold War, administration officials say.
The move presents a major challenge for President Trump, who has vowed to improve relations with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and to pursue future arms accords.
The new Russian missile deployment also comes as the Trump administration is struggling to fill key policy positions at the State Department and the Pentagon and to settle on a permanent replacement for Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser who resigned late Monday. Mr. Flynn stepped down after it was revealed that he had misled the vice president and other officials over conversations with Moscows ambassador to Washington.
The ground-launched cruise missile at the center of American concerns is one that the Obama administration said in 2014 had been tested in violation of a 1987 treaty that bans American and Russian intermediate-range missiles based on land.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=64912388&pgtype=Homepage
Another Missile Crisis?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)bottled water
dry foods
canned foods
and none of it does you any good without guns and ammo
But thank GOD we dont have the private server woman in charge , eh!
How many private servers, email accounts are in the WH now?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)he is a complete idiot, how many of them are spies?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)no comments for GOP and their ignorant voter base. #45 has shown such weakness that are approaching war.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Flynn not fired for 3 weeks after committing treason.
HELLO!
Freethinker65
(10,017 posts)Plan B time
renate
(13,776 posts)I hope that's what's going on... better than the alternative.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Given what's gone down in the last 24 hours. Who'd a thunk it??