... falling out between the United States and NATO during de Gaulle’s presidency.
But the Euro-optimists, who are eager to make the European Union a great nuclear power, have been unhappy with the Treaty of Lisbon for some time now. In 2016, For example, prominent ... ... aviation, of course, on jet fighters, but it is what it is.
Andrey Kortunov:
Four Pieces of Advice to Emmanuel Macron about the INF Treaty
It may be tempting to disperse to multiple airfields across Europe during a heightened threat, but this would require ...
... relations. The general deterioration of European security due to the expiration of the INF Treaty, the degradation of confidence-building measures, and the start of an arms... ... on relations. The intensification of sub-regional competition between Russia and the European Union (this competition appears to be particularly dangerous in the Western... ... possibility that investigations may be launched in some EU states in connection with accusations of Russia interfering in their elections and supporting separatists and political...
...
The Russian moratorium proposal
On 2
nd
February 2019, when the United States announced that it intended to withdraw from the INF Treaty on 2
nd
August, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a
meeting
with ministers Shoigu and Lavrov to discuss the possible ... ... are now free to make whatever deployments they desire. The moratorium is an initiative for the future, although the mutual accusations of INF Treaty non-compliance will have to be addressed eventually.
Last year
I argued
that this ‘no first deployment’ ...
... policy leader of Europe, including regarding Russian, which is very important for the European Union
Emmanuel Macron’s recent response to Russia’s proposed moratorium... ... interpretation of his statement. Capitals of Central Europe responded with a barrage of accusations against the Élysée Palace, suggesting its current occupant was undermining... ... the United States were surprised that France was trying to influence the fate of the INF Treaty, which was (or rather had been, before its demise) a bilateral treaty between...
... agreement at both expert and government levels. Now they have been used as the official pretext for the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty (in addition to accusing Russia of violating it). Washington also uses these arguments to oppose the extension of the ... ... opponent from achieving success in a conventional conflict. Hence the nuclear revanchists are striving to make nuclear weapons more usable, while the revisionists call for discarding traditional methods of arms control in favor of entirely new ways of enhancing ...
... aimed at bringing the adversary to the understanding that a return strike would be inevitable.
This is the so-called MAD: Mutually assured destruction…
Yes. So, these treaties were supplemented by further ones like SALT 1, 2 and 3, and, in 1987, the
INF Treaty
. We were also proposing further agreements, both bilaterally with the US and in our dialogue with NATO.
Unfortunately, after the abrogation of the INF treaty, this backsliding continued. And the fact that the current US administration chose ...
On February 26, 2019, at Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute in Berlin, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, gave a public lecture focusing on the topic “Peace after the INF Treaty”.
On February 26, 2019, at Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute in Berlin, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, gave a public lecture focusing on the topic “Peace after the INF Treaty”.
The lecture participants included experts ...
