goldenequity
09-04-2017, 08:23 PM
Just remember: Sec. Def. 'Mad Dog' got his moniker overseeing the atrocities committed in Fallujah (http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/james-mattis-war-criminal-i-experienced-his-attack-fallujah-firsthand). He's unhinged. like Trump.
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NATO to discuss dropping INF Treaty and planning for nuclear war in Europe
https://www.sott.net/article/361117-NATO-to-discuss-dropping-INF-Treaty-and-planning-for-nuclear-war-in-Europe
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on 8 December 1987.
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Amid mounting military and diplomatic tensions between the US and Russia, the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Friday that the American Congress has taken the first steps toward Washington's annulling of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
A NATO document classified as secret, which was obtained by a joint research group made up of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and public regional broadcasters NDR and WDR, contains 39 proposals on how NATO can take action against Russia. According to diplomats, "formal consultations within NATO" could take place in the autumn at the initiative of the US.
The paper was "a compendium of all options available"
carefully "divided up into the categories
'conceivable',
'currently to be avoided'
and 'not advisable'."
Characteristically, the explosive reports by the German press have been totally ignored by the US print and broadcast media.
The INF, or Washington Treaty on Mid-range Nuclear Systems, is a bilateral agreement reached between the United States and the Soviet Union on the decommissioning of short- and mid-range missiles (with a range of between 500 and 5,500 miles), and the banning of their production.
The treaty, signed on 8 December 1987 by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, led to a significant reduction of US nuclear weapons in Europe. The nuclear-armed mid-range Pershing II missiles, whose stationing in Western Europe five years earlier had triggered the largest peace demonstrations to that point in history, were withdrawn.
The danger now is "that the US will construct new missiles and station them in Europe," warned the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A major shift would be set "into motion" and Europe would stand "on the brink of a new nuclear era ...
nuclear mid-range missiles were the horror of the Cold War ...
thirty years on, the spectre has returned."
more (https://www.sott.net/article/361117-NATO-to-discuss-dropping-INF-Treaty-and-planning-for-nuclear-war-in-Europe)
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NATO to discuss dropping INF Treaty and planning for nuclear war in Europe
https://www.sott.net/article/361117-NATO-to-discuss-dropping-INF-Treaty-and-planning-for-nuclear-war-in-Europe
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on 8 December 1987.
https://www.sott.net/image/s20/417607/large/9ba97c7d_7360_44b9_ae8b_233733.jpg
Amid mounting military and diplomatic tensions between the US and Russia, the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Friday that the American Congress has taken the first steps toward Washington's annulling of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
A NATO document classified as secret, which was obtained by a joint research group made up of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and public regional broadcasters NDR and WDR, contains 39 proposals on how NATO can take action against Russia. According to diplomats, "formal consultations within NATO" could take place in the autumn at the initiative of the US.
The paper was "a compendium of all options available"
carefully "divided up into the categories
'conceivable',
'currently to be avoided'
and 'not advisable'."
Characteristically, the explosive reports by the German press have been totally ignored by the US print and broadcast media.
The INF, or Washington Treaty on Mid-range Nuclear Systems, is a bilateral agreement reached between the United States and the Soviet Union on the decommissioning of short- and mid-range missiles (with a range of between 500 and 5,500 miles), and the banning of their production.
The treaty, signed on 8 December 1987 by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, led to a significant reduction of US nuclear weapons in Europe. The nuclear-armed mid-range Pershing II missiles, whose stationing in Western Europe five years earlier had triggered the largest peace demonstrations to that point in history, were withdrawn.
The danger now is "that the US will construct new missiles and station them in Europe," warned the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A major shift would be set "into motion" and Europe would stand "on the brink of a new nuclear era ...
nuclear mid-range missiles were the horror of the Cold War ...
thirty years on, the spectre has returned."
more (https://www.sott.net/article/361117-NATO-to-discuss-dropping-INF-Treaty-and-planning-for-nuclear-war-in-Europe)