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
In future posts I will share more about this topic.
