Era of Ronald Wilson Reagan & Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev replaced
by
Era of Donald John Trump/John Robert Bolton & a no doubt perplexed Vladimir
Vladimirovich Putin
We live in a serious world with serious problems, where deep fissures
need fixing, gulfs need bridging, minds need healing, and relations need mending. Yet the world must
suffer further — holding its breath while a lunatic runs amok for two more years and three months before returning to a playground and playmates whose capitalist
perversity luxuriates in carelessness, cast-off charity, and waste applauded by them as traits of “good” character.
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- violent aggression
- sanctions
- spread of lethal arms
- abandoned landmines
- verbal threats and blackmail against nations and peoples —
- All further jeopardizing the health and human rights, safety and security of peoples, and the planet at large.
Thirty-two years ago came Reykjavík then the INF
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.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan and USSR General Secretary Mikhail
Sergeyevich Gorbachev on December 8,
1987, signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (or INF Treaty) in
Washington, D.C.
The previous year had come the Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavík (Iceland) Summit
(October 11-12, 1986) where some progress was made in addressing the nuclear arms problem.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), formerly titled “Treaty
Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range
Missiles,” was ratified by the U.S. Senate on May 27, 1988, and came into effect
on June 1, 1988.
The INF is an arms control agreement (between USA and USSR later the Russian
Federation) that eliminates “all nuclear and conventional missiles, as well as
their launchers, with ranges of 500–1,000 kilometers (310–620 mi) (short-range)
and 1,000–5,500 km (620–3,420 mi) (intermediate-range).”
By May 1991, “2,692 missiles” had been reported eliminated. In the
ensuing 10-year period, there were regular “on-site verification inspections.” A
favorite Russian proverb of the U.S. president used many times in the context
of nuclear disarmament became:
“Trust, but verify” (Доверяй, но проверяй; Doveryai, no proveryai).
October 21, 2018 news reports said the USA is considering (as with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA, Iran Nuclear
Deal) withdrawal from INF
Reaction to this World-Threatening
Stunt
The October move by the United States “will pave the way to ‘complete
chaos.’”
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estern allies face a choice
…either to embark on the same path—possibly leading to new war
…or to side with common sense—at least for the sake of their self-preservation instinct” [Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Russian Federation’s Parliament’s Upper House Foreign Affairs Committee]
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s “lunatic-too” (John Robert Bolton) heads off to a Sunday summit in
Moscow,though he is rumored to be the mastermind of this latest madness.
The former Soviet leader who signed the INF with the now-deceased U.S.
leader rightly asks
“Do they really not understand in Washington what this could lead to?”
Seeking to instill some sense of sanity in yet another Washington moment of crude
ineptitude, insensibility and insanity, Mikhail Gorbachev urges
that
“Under no circumstances should we tear up old disarmament agreements.”
Sources
News
RT “Gorbachev: Trump’s move to
quit INF is ‘narrow-minded’, a clear ‘mistake’” October 21, 2018 https://www.rt.com/news/441867-gorbachev-inf-trump-withdrawal/
PressTV “Gorbachev warns Trump
against ditching nuke deal: ‘Quitting INF a mistake’” October 21, 2018 https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/10/21/577687/US-Russia-Gorbchev-INF-nuclear-treaty-Kosachev
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk_Summit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
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