Russia: Parliament Suspends Arms Treaty Compliance

[Purveyor]

Source: New York Times

Parliament’s lower house voted 418 to 0 to back a Kremlin decision to suspend participation in a treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe.

In July, a Kremlin statement said that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe had increased the alliance’s military capacity, in violation of the original treaty adopted in 1990 by NATO and the Soviet Union.

Officials in Russia also suggested Russia would stop observing the treaty because of the Bush administration’s decision to abrogate another, the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, and move ahead with a missile-defense system in Central Europe.

Russian officials have threatened to direct their missiles toward Europe if the United States proceeds with the system.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/world/europe/08briefs-treaty.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

[LakeSamish706]

1. Well there you have it folks... Another GWB wonderment in the making! n/t

[TwilightGardener]

2. Nice.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Well, I feel safer now. Don't you?

:sarcasm:

[endarkenment]

4. Exactly what the BFEE wanted.

Their plan to re-create the cold war is going just fine. This time they get to make profits from all parties involved, just like in the salad days of the WWI WWII era. Hey wait one minute, both of those corporate war machine bonanzas went hot.

[jmatthan]

5. Condi wants work!!!

eom

[Tyler Durden]

6. What I wish would happen to the Pig Bush and ALL of his minions and supporters....

...cannot be spoken aloud, let alone posted.

I will only say let it be so.

[Hydra]

7. New Cold War

pointless and unwanted...just like everything everything else GWB does to make a profit.

Expect global warming to be tabled- this will be seen as more important.