{"id":177170,"date":"2018-10-03T04:06:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T04:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177170"},"modified":"2018-10-06T04:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T04:26:21","slug":"note-to-nato-you-dont-take-out-missiles-without-having-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177170","title":{"rendered":"Note To NATO – You Don’t “Take Out” Missiles Without Having A War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama — Oct 2, 2018<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Earlier today the U.S. ambassador to NATO threatened to “take out”<\/a><\/strong><\/span> a new kind of Russian missiles:<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. envoy to NATO on Tuesday said that Russia must halt development of new missiles that could carry nuclear warheads and warned that the United States could \u201ctake out\u201d the system if it becomes operational.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. and Russia have for some time disagreed about the INF treaty. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty<\/a><\/strong><\/span> was signed in 1987 between the Soviet General Secretary Gorbachov and U.S. President Reagan. It prohibits land-based (not sea-based) nuclear-capable systems with a range of more than 500 kilometers and less than 5,500 kilometers. The agreement came to pass after the Soviets stationed SS-20 missiles in East Europe. NATO responded with the Pershing II deployment. The problem with these missiles was warning time. Fired at a relatively short range they threatened to overwhelm one side before it could respond. The missiles thus destroyed the equilibrium of Mutual Assured Destruction<\/a><\/strong><\/span> (MAD). The INF treaty banned these missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia said for years<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that the U.S. broke the INF agreement when it stationed missile defense systems in Europe to allegedly take out North Korean and Iranian intercontinental missiles. The missile defense missiles could possibly be armed with nuclear warheads and could probably be used in a surface-to-surface mode. (Previously deployed U.S. Nike-Hercules air defense missiles had such capabilities<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. denies that its missile defense systems break the INF and accuses Russia of breaking the treaty by testing a land launched version<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>of its sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles. Russia denies that it is testing anything that is not compatible with the INF treaty. If there is a land-launched version it is likely confined to a range below 500 kilometers and thus in compliance with the INF. The sea-launched version has a reach of up to 2,500 kilometers. An export variant is limited to 300 kilometres. The possibly land-launched version, which is said to be shorter than the original Kalibr missile<\/a><\/strong><\/span> (see comments), might well have a much shorter range than the sea-launched system. The missiles have, as far as is publicly known<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, non-nuclear warheads.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. ambassador to NATO is Kay Baily Hutchinson<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a long-term Republican politician with no military experience. Her choice of words in today’s press briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/span> was clearly unprofessional:<\/span><\/p>\n

Question:<\/em> […] Ma\u2019am, can you be more specific what kind of new information that you are bringing to the table regarding the breach of the INF Treaty? And more explicitly also, what kind of countermeasures that you are considering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ambassador Hutchison:<\/em> The countermeasures would be to take out the missiles<\/strong> that are in development by Russia in violation of the treaty. So that would be the countermeasure eventually. We are trying not to do anything that would violate the treaty on our side, which allows research, but not going forward into development, and we are carefully keeping the INF Treaty requirements on our side, while Russia is violating. …<\/span><\/p>\n

The reporters in the room were in disbelieve over such aggressive wording and followed up:<\/span><\/p>\n

Cont. reading: Note To NATO – You Don’t “Take Out” Missiles Without Having A War\u00a0 <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More on the increasingly belligerent way Washington is addressing Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177172,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177170\/revisions\/177172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}