Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part VI

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:3

This post shows that Russia is not our friend but an enemy to the United States of America and is planning a future attack on this nation.

3. America's Enemies, Russia's Friends
While the United States continues to fight the war on terrorism, Russia is supplying many of these enemies with weapons of mass destruction. To prove that Russia is supplying many of the enemies of the United States, I will quote articles from news sources around the world.

a) The article titled "Russia Rips CIA Report On Technology" (Note 11) says

"Russia angrily denounced a CIA report that questions the Kremlin's willingness and ability to prevent the spread of dangerous technology, a sign of renewed tension following a sharp improvement in relations in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks......This is the first time in recent years that an official American document makes an attempt to question the devotion, willingness and ability of the Russian government to prevent the leakage of sensitive products and technology abroad, The Foreign Ministry said. Russia strictly meets its international obligations to control the export of sensitive trade and technology. CIA Director George Tenet told Congress on Wednesday that Russia is one of the leading suppliers of nuclear technology and missiles to countries hostile to the United States and remains the first choice of nations seeking nuclear technology and training.....President Vladimir Putin has lent strong support for the U.S.- led campaign in Afghanistan, saying Russia long ago recognized the worldwide threat of terrorism. But President Bush's denunciation of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as part of an 'axis of evil' that must stop pursuing weapons of mass destruction or face consequences presented a challenge to Russia, which has friendly ties with all three."

b) An article titled "Russia, Iran Agree On Nuclear Reactor"(Note 12) states

"Russia brushed aside strong U.S. criticism on Wednesday and said it had agreed with Tehran to speed up building of a $800 million nuclear reactor in Iran and to consider constructing another. The United States, which has branded Iran part of an 'axis of evil' for allegedly developing weapons of mass destruction, fiercely opposes the Islamic Republic's nuclear program."

c) In an article titled "Iraq Buys GPS Scramblers From Russia" (Note 13) it says

"Iraq has obtained global positioning satellite scrambling devices that could play havoc with U.S. smart bombs, the Pentagon says, according to a Fox News Channel report. According to the report, the GPS scramblers - about the size of a clock radio - have been positioned around the borders of Iraq in an effort to throw satellite-guided bombs away from targets."

NOTES:
Note 11:https://tinyurl.com/yxop9hjz
Note 12: https://tinyurl.com/y2147o3j
Note 13: https://tinyurl.com/yxbfqthe

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Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part V
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:3
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2. Treaty Signer, Treaty Breaker
In an article titled "NF Nuclear Treaty: US Pulls Out Of Cold War-Era Pact With Russia" (Note 9) it states
"The US has formally withdrawn from a key nuclear treaty with Russia, raising fears of a new arms race. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. It banned missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km (310-3,400 miles). But earlier this year the US and Nato accused Russia of violating the pact by deploying a new type of cruise missile, which Moscow has denied. The Americans said they had evidence that Russia had deployed a number of 9M729 missiles - known to Nato as SSC-8. This accusation was then put to Washington's Nato allies, which all backed the US claim. 'Russia is solely responsible for the treaty's demise,' Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Friday. 'With the full support of our Nato allies, the United States has determined Russia to be in material breach of the treaty, and has subsequently suspended our obligations under the treaty,' he added."
In another article titled "Large-Scale Russian Treaty Violations Revealed On Eve Of New Talks" (Note 10 ) it states
"The Trump administration revealed on the eve of new arms talks with Russia nine major arms control agreement compliance failures by Moscow. Special U.S. arms control envoy Marshall Billingslea said the sole positive finding in the forthcoming State Department annual report on arms compliance is Moscow’s adherence to the terms of the 2010 New START. However, Mr. Billingslea said extending the treaty, set to expire in February, remains uncertain. 'This year’s arms control report documents Russia’s abysmal track record in complying with its promises,' Mr. Billingslea told The Washington Times. 'These aren’t trivial arms control violations,' he said. 'These are invasions of countries, assassination attempts and blowing up a 30-year-plus treaty through its violations.' . . . . The report also addresses U.S. 'concerns with Russia’s activities related to its commitments under the Biological Weapons Convention,' a senior State Department official said. Violations of the Vienna Document, part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, include Russian stationing forces in Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the report says. Moscow is violating the 1975 Helsinki Final Act by arming and training anti- government forces fighting in Eastern Ukraine, the report notes. The Conventional Forces in Europe agreement is being violated by Russia’s stationing of military forces in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine without those nations’ consent."
We see from these articles that Russia is using deception by signing treaties it doesn't intend to keep.
NOTES:
Note 9: https://tinyurl.com/y3bmalqs
Note 10: https://tinyurl.com/y6qfbpja
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Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part IV

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:3

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2. Treaty Signer, Treaty Breaker

In another article titled "Russia Issues 'Regret,' Warning Over US Missile Shield Plan"(Note 7), it states

"Russia expressed 'regret' Wednesday at US President George W. Bush's decision to deploy a limited missile shield by 2004 and said the move could lead to a new arms race while sidetracking the fight against terrorism. 'Such steps must not hurt Russia's security interests,' said Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov while on a visit to Tokyo, the Interfax news agency reported....That new partnership was sealed at a May summit in Moscow at which Bush and Putin vowed to slash the two sides' nuclear arsenals by two thirds over a 10-year span......Igor Sergeyev, a former defense minister who serves as Putin's advisor on strategic defense, argued Wednesday that Washington has failed to assure Moscow that the shield was aimed against nations like North Korea rather than Russia itself. We cannot fail but notice that the shield is being unfurled not in the south -- where the perceived danger from so-called rogue states is coming from -- but in the north, the direction from which Russian missile could rain down on US soil, said Sergeyev. Meanwhile lawmakers in Russia's State Duma lower house of parliament -- which must still ratify the May disarmament treaty -- launched a move to amend the May disarmament to let Russia withdraw from the pact under exceptional circumstances....Duma defense committee chairman Andrei Nikolayev said he would propose that US or NATO military decisions threatening Russia's national security, and serious Russian economic difficulties, would allow Russia to abandon the pact and keep its nuclear arms."

In another article titled "Pompeo: Russia Using Open Skies Treaty For Data On Cruise Missile Targets" (Note 8) it states

“Russia is using intelligence obtained from U.S. and European overflights under the Open Skies Treaty to plan future cruise missile strikes on infrastructure targets, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed yesterday. ‘Moscow appears to use Open Skies imagery in support of an aggressive new Russian doctrine of targeting critical infrastructure in the United States and Europe with precision-guided conventional munitions,’ Mr. Pompeo said in a statement supporting President Trump’s announcement to withdraw from the 2002 treaty. ’Rather than using the Open Skies Treaty as a mechanism for improving trust and confidence through military transparency, Russia has, therefore, weaponized the treaty by making it into a tool of intimidation and threat,’ he noted.”

NOTES:
Note 7: www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bv/Qru....ssia-us-missile.Rw7M
Note 8: https://tinyurl.com/ybyhgy4e

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Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part III

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:3

This post shows that Russia is not our friend but an enemy to the United States of America and is planning a future attack on this nation.

2. Treaty Signer, Treaty Breaker

b) An article titled "Satellites Pinpoint Russia Nuclear Arms In Baltics"(Note 6) states
"U.S. spy satellites have located the exact position of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, contradicting Moscow's contention that it had not transferred the battlefield arms....The satellite photographs have refuted Russian government denials about the transfer or deployment of nuclear arms in Kaliningrad. The transfers were first reported by The Washington Times on Jan. 3....Under an informal agreement reached between the United States and Russia in 1992, Moscow was to remove all tactical nuclear weapons from forward-deployed areas and said they had done so.....A Pentagon spokesman told The Washington Times last month that the deployment of tactical nuclear arms to Kaliningrad violates Moscow's pledge to keep the Baltic region a 'nuclear-free'" zone."

c) On May 24, 2002 President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty in Moscow. An article titled "A New Nuclear Treaty" is subtitled "Allowing Weapons To Be Stored Could Leave Russian Arms Vulnerable"(Note 3). The article states that this treaty "would limit nuclear stockpiles in both nations to 1,700 to 2,200 warheads by 2012."

NOTES:
Note 3: The Oregonian Newspaper, Tuesday, May 14, 2002 page A6
Note 6: The Washington Times, Published 2/15/01 by Bill Gertz

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Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part II

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:3

This post shows that Russia is not our friend but an enemy to the United States of America and is planning a future attack on this nation.

2. Treaty Signer, Treaty Breaker
Since 1968, the former Soviet Union or Russia has been trying to reduce our nation's nuclear arsenals through treaties which they sign with no intention to keep. An article titled "A New Nuclear Treaty", subtitled "Allowing Weapons To Be Stored Could Leave Russian Arms Vulnerable"(Note 3) contains interesting information. In this article it shows the long history of nuclear arms treaties signed from 1968 to the most recent treaty signed on May 24, 2002. Let's look at three examples of how the Soviet Union or Russia signs agreements with the United States and how the United States follows through with the agreements but Russia never keeps them.

1)The Start 2 treaty was signed by the first President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in January 1993. The treaty said "to reduce nuclear warheads to 3,000 to 3,500 each, was ratified by the Senate in January 1996. The Russian Parliament ratified it in 2000. It has yet to go into effect."

An another article titled "Moscow Extends Life Of 144 Cold War Ballistic Missiles"(Note 4) shows the results of this treaty. In the article it states

"Russia has announced a radical plan to overhaul more than 100 of its most powerful intercontinental nuclear missiles, which had been destined for the scrap heap under the arms reduction treaties with the United States. A total of 144 of the missiles, which weigh 200 tonnes and can each carry 10 warheads to the US from silos behind the Ural mountains, were due to be dismantled by 2007 under the Start 2 weapons treaty signed by George Bush Sr. and Boris Yeltsin nine years ago. But the commander in chief of Russia's strategic nuclear forces, Colonel- General Nikolai Solovtsov, has declared that the missiles - nicknamed Satan by the west during the cold war - are to be refurbished and upgraded to keep them fully operational until 2014.....The missiles are considered particularly effective, since they send 50 warheads over their target area, 40 of which are decoys designed to outwit sophisticated missile defense systems of the kind planned by the Bush administration...... President Vladimir Putin replied that the decision was a "mistake", but not a threat to Russia. Six months later Russia pulled out of the Start 2 treaty, which compelled it to destroy its Satan missiles."

Another article titled "Trident Sub Ohio To Trade Nukes For Conventional Weaponry" (Note 5) shows that the US is still keeping it's end of the bargain. In the article it states

"The USS Ohio, the oldest among the nation's fleet of hulking, black Trident submarines, is trading in its nuclear arsenal....The 560-foot Ohio, commissioned during the Cold War in 1981, is one of the four Tridents the Navy is outfitting with conventional weapons under the START II pact. The treaty requires the Russian and American navies each to cut back to 14 ballistic missile subs by the end of the year."

NOTES:
Note 3: The Oregonian Newspaper, Tuesday, May 14, 2002 page A6
Note 4: https:tinyurl.com/y5v3v45y
Note 5 : The Columbian Newspaper, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002

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