Russia's foreign minister announced on Sunday that Moscow will end its unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate- and short-range missiles, saying this is in response to actions taken by the US.
“It is obvious today that, for example, our moratorium on the deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles is already practically unviable and will have to be abandoned,” Sergey Lavrov told state news agency RIA, referring to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
Lavrov said the moratorium is still in effect, but he accused the US of “arrogantly” disregarding warnings from both Russia and China and proceeding with the deployment of such weapons in various global regions.
He also cited Russian President Vladimir Putin's statements on the matter, saying that Moscow would respond to these actions proportionately.
“The recent test of the latest hypersonic medium-range system Oreshnik, carried out by us in combat conditions, convincingly demonstrated our capabilities and determination to implement compensatory measures,” Lavrov added.
Addressing arms control issues between Russia and the US, he said Moscow will not engage in any negotiations with Washington on this matter until the US abandons its “anti-Russian course.”
The US and NATO would face a “decisive” response from Russia if they create new threats against the country, he warned, stressing that Moscow is prepared for any scenario.
The INF Treaty, signed by Washington and Moscow in 1987, prohibited the deployment of ground-based nuclear and conventional missiles.
However, the US withdrew from the treaty in 2019, citing what the US called "Russian violations."
Hal Turner Snap Analysis
The world just got dramatically more dangerous.
Whereas during the INF Treaty, both the US and Russia agreed to NOT deploy short and medium range nuclear missiles, the US withdrew from that back in 2019, but Russia CONTINUED to abide by it. Now, Russia will no longer abide because the US not only withdrew in 2019, the US has begun actually DEPLOYING such ground-based (moveable) missiles.
Think back to a couple months ago when Russia launched their Oreshnik medium range missile against Ukraine. Russia gave the 30 minute warning to the US as was required under the INF Treaty, even though the US withdrew from it. Now, we won't get those 30 minute warnings.
When Russia launched against Ukraine, the missile flew so fast, that no missile defense systems were able to intercept it. NONE!
That missile struck the target it was aimed at and utterly destroyed the target within about two minutes.
TWO MINUTES ! ! ! ! !
Now, think NATO Capital Cities
All the NATO capital cities within about 5,000 KM of Russia, can all be hit in less than about 5 minutes from time of launch.
No time to even THINK about what to do, never mind respond.
Is it a conventional missile coming at them? Or is it nuclear???? No way of knowing.
See how frighteningly dangerous this just became?
All this . . . . because of US/NATO Meddling in Ukraine.
