ELKO, Nev. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States will exit the Cold-War era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that eliminated a class of nuclear weapons, in a move that is likely to upset Russia.
The INF treaty, negotiated by then-President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1988, required elimination of short-range and intermediate-range nuclear and conventional missiles by both countries.
“Russia has not, unfortunately, honored the agreement so we’re going to terminate the agreement and we’re going to pull out,” Trump told reporters after a rally in Nevada.
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The problem with the INF treaty is China not included in it. This make US very vulnerable in case of war with China.
America has to send its forces 5000 miles across the ocean to fight the most populous nation on Earth.
America loses every time. Ask Vietnam.
Maybe I'm too young, but at the risk of sounding dumb, why was the INF treaty important in the first place. Frome what I've read, it banned missiles with ranges of 500-5,500 km. How does that stop someone from using a missle with a longer range from hitting a target within that range? The only thing I can think of is that a country would have less time to stop a missile shot 500km from their border than a missile shot 6000 km from their border. Again thought why couldn't a long range missile be brought just as close? Can someone please clarify for me?
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Warning time. ICBM's are ICBM's for a reason. They're designed for intercontinental range.
Correct.
ICBMs take 30 minutes from the U.S. to Russia.
The Pershing missile that was deployed to West Germany in the 1980s. It would take 7 - 8 minutes to get to Moscow.
Scott Day,
The requirements, the designs and the costs are not the same at all.
America won in Vietnam.
Vietnam's win seems rather Pyrrhic. They keep complaining they are suffering the after effects. So they won?
- After Tet the Viet Cong was a hollow force.
- To replace the Viet Cong , the North Vietnamese sent its army south. There was one caveat to this move. They did not want to leave the North exposed.
-So China sent 300,000+_ troops to North Vietnam.
- The Democrats did what the Democrats are good at. Be ruthless to domestic enemies and flee from foreign ones.
Democrats are cowards.
- The Democrat party cutoff aid to Vietnam.
- Russian and Chinese aid to North Vietnam was not cut off.
A nuke takes 0 seconds to get to Washington D.C.
It comes across the southern border.
The treaty specifically dealt with at the time was called a GLCM - Ground Launch Cruise Missile. I was stationed at a base in England back in 1986-88 that had these missiles, then this treaty got signed, got rid of the missiles and closed the base.
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