Monday, February 4, 2019

Germany: Comes up with a fantastic idea to preserve the INF Treaty: NOT

(Berlin) So whilst the liberal world blamed President Trump (like they do) for pulling the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty- Which prohibited Washington and Moscow from fielding ground-launched cruise missiles that could fly between 310 and 3,420 miles.

- when they re-rolled the submarine launched RK-55 cruise missile for service on land as the 9M729 missile. 

The US stated in 2014 that the latest iteration broke the agreement as laid down in the INF, but the Russians replied actually it doesn't as they didn't provide the missiles with enough fuel to go further than 480 miles , so with Moscow taking no notice of the rule book or the protests agaisnt it regards the deployment of 2 battalions of the 9M729. Washington stated the otherday :
"If Moscow failed to destroy all new missile systems that  violate the treaty, "Russia will bear sole responsibility for the end of the treaty".
Well Moscow's answer was to be expected, seeing as both countries see the threat of China greater than agaisnt each other (China doesn't have to conform to the same rules). However in an attempt to defuse the situation Germany has come up with a novel idea of keeping both sides happy. Relocate the missiles to the other side of the Ural mountain range so as to ensure they can't hit Europe. Unless of course they move or even add more fuel. But hey I am talking about Europeans now who whilst relying on the US  to defend them, go well out of their way to mock Americans whilst waxing lyrical about those who can harm them: Russia/Iran. Funny enough this is just a repeat of the cruise missile crisis of the 1980s when cruise missiles deployed to Europe in response to the deployment of Russian missiles earned the anger of the ethical latte brigade , whilst their answer to the Russian nukes:
"Better red than dead"
Sometimes I wonder why the US bothers