Russia Friend or Foe? - 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 article 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."
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 3: The Oregonian Newspaper, Tuesday, May 14, 2002 page A6
Note 6: The Washington Times, Published 2/15/01 by Bill Gertz
Note 7: www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bv/Qru....ssia-us-missile.Rw7M
Note 8: https://tinyurl.com/ybyhgy4e
In future posts I will share more about this topic.
