Take it with a grain of salt.Russia may or may not be technically be cheating on the INF treaty, but this is not the first time they've been caught cheating on nuclear weapons agreements. They've also made it clear in the past that nuclear weapons form a fundamental part of their national strategy, as well as their naval tactical strategy; over the last few years I've posted a few articles where statements from Russian officials to this effect have been made.
The simple fact is that non-prolifertion and disarmament are a farce, and we need to abandon them. We don't need a wholsesale arms race, but our strategic capabilities have been cut too much and in the wrong places. If we need to make defense cuts, we need to make them by shrinking the Army and cutting back on "expeditionary" (nation-building) oriented forces, and start concentrating again on naval and air power intended to address major threats, rather than trying to use the military to swat every insignificant fly around the globe by shooting $68,000 missiles at $1,000 third world jalopies. Flies can be swatted here and there, but that isn't the reason to have a military; the purpose of the military is to kill marauding grizzly bears.
In other words we need more of these (in modern form):
and less of these
and we need to stop focusing on these as our primary security concern
And stop pretending these magically went away in 1991.
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