Darkened Skies: The U.S. Might Withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies

... the countries of the west that support its position and view the entire stretch of the Russian Transcaucasia border from the Black Sea to the border with Azerbaijan as a border with a Treaty on Open Skies signatory country. Georgia has been declining Russian observation flights since 2012. The crisis exacerbated in late 2017 when Georgia’s position prevented active quotas from being adopted for the following years, so no observation flights were conducted in 2018. In a spirit of goodwill and driven by its ...