Friday, August 28, 2015

Russia Is Cheating, So Will Iran

Nuclear Weaponry: President Obama's own State Department last year found Russia violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Now Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., demands release of the Pentagon's assessment.
Remember during the third 2012 debate when President Obama was having a ball sneering at Mitt Romney for pointing to Russia as a global threat? 
Russian missiles are paraded through Red Square to mark 
the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 
Moscow on May 9, 2015. AP
"A few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaida," Obama taunted. "You know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years."
Obama added: "You indicated that we shouldn't be passing nuclear treaties with Russia despite the fact that 71 senators, Democrats and Republicans, voted for it."
But those 71 senators, including a dozen dovish Republicans, who voted for the New START Treaty in 2010, don't look all that smart today.
GOP presidential hopeful Cruz made a crucial point in a letter to Obama last week: As far back as 2008, long before the State Department last year formally declared that Moscow was violating a major nuclear arms treaty, "the United States has harbored doubts of Russian compliance," specifically regarding a ground-launched cruise missile, the R-500, with a range of over 1,200 miles.
Another suspected violation regards a newer missile, the RS-26 ICBM, dubbed "the missile defense killer" by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who is in charge of military issues.
Senators were not told of the violations before voting on New START in 2010, and beyond that cruise missile, "Russia has potentially mislabeled intermediate missiles as inter-continental ballistic missiles and fielded air defense systems that possess ground-to-ground ballistic capability," Cruz told the president.
"If true, these would not only constitute clear violations of the INF treaty, but present a material threat to the United States and our allies," Cruz added.
He further argued that releasing a Pentagon report on Moscow's violations, which the White House has put an embargo on, is necessary in determining what the strategic response to Russia's violations should be.
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