{"id":198703,"date":"2007-10-17T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/russia-threatens-to-ditch-inf-treaty\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T21:31:00","slug":"russia-threatens-to-ditch-inf-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/russia-threatens-to-ditch-inf-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Threatens to Ditch INF Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of a breakdown in diplomatic relations between Russia and the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/defence\/Russia_threatens_to_leave_missile_treaty30013769.php\">Russia is threatening to leave the INF missile treaty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not a big surprise, you locate a missile defense site that is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">clearly<\/span> targeted against Russia, and they don&#8217;t trust us.   Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>The original treaty only happened because we had missiles in Europe that could hit their homeland.  This time, if the Russians <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">do<\/span> breakout from the treaty, there will be no US Pershings of Tomohawks.  Public opinion in Europe will not allow it.<\/p>\n<p>Putin knows the score, and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupnewsblog.net\/2007\/10\/do-not-mess-with-original-gangsta.html\">Lowermanhattanite says at the group news blog<\/a>, never confuse a poseur (Bush, Cheney, Rice) with the real gangsta (Putin, former KGB, Clinton called him the &#8220;Coldest SOB I&#8217;ve ever Met&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of a breakdown in diplomatic relations between Russia and the US, Russia is threatening to leave the INF missile treaty. Not a big surprise, you locate a missile defense site that is clearly targeted against Russia, and they don&#8217;t trust us. Go figure. The original treaty only happened because we had missiles &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,964,1096,1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms-control","category-foreign-relations","category-missile-defense","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}