The unraveling of the INF Treaty will greatly complicate if not eliminate, any prospects, for the New START. And without the latter, there will be no agreement to curb the arms race at all. Arms control will be dead.
The erosion of NPT will greatly complicate the prospects for strategic arms agreements between the US and Russia. Global control over nuclear weapons is essential for making progress. The America’s non-compliance with the NPT commitments is an issue serious enough to be put on the agenda of the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
Russia’s international isolation is nothing but a myth, yet many Western media outlets and leaders continue to promote the idea, ignoring the obvious facts of the matter.
The new system enables Russian warships to provide area defense, which is crucially important for a navy destined for a wide variety of peacetime and wartime missions all over the world.
The authoritarian misfits in the Turnbull government have again rumbled and uttered suspicions long held: Australian residents and citizens are not to be trusted, and the intelligence services should start getting busy in expanding their operations against the next Doomsday threat.
The position of Washington on Turkey’s purchase of the Russian S-400 missile systems is certainly not the only example of US duplicity. This American policy is facing broad resistance. The US could have offered a better defense system but it failed to develop and produce one
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Internet users in the Russian Federation may have noticed something different in the last week or two. Many Internet sites that were available in March are no longer available now, at least not without a VPN in use to set the user’s computer outside the Russian Federation.
Is this government censorship?
Hardly, at least not in the expected sense of sanctioning the West.
Provocative military deployments in Europe are hardly the way to create a propitious environment for a summit. Nor do they enhance the security of the United States. But they are taking place, poisoning the atmosphere and creating a big problem.
The 22160-class ships will become a credible deterrent to make anyone who harbors aggressive plans against Russia think twice before implementing them.
Not all of Russia’s game-changing weapons were mentioned in the president’s landmark speech that the mainstream media keep writing so much about. The president’s address simply could not include all the numerous breakthroughs in military technology Russia has achieved recently.
