Here is the latest evidence:
Amid mounting military and diplomatic tensions between the US and Russia, the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Friday that the American Congress has taken the first steps toward Washington’s annulling of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
The INF, or Washington Treaty on Mid-range Nuclear Systems, is a bilateral agreement reached between the United States and the Soviet Union on the decommissioning of short- and mid-range missiles (with a range of between 500 and 5,500 miles), and the banning of their production.
The treaty, signed on 8 December 1987 by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, led to a significant reduction of US nuclear weapons in Europe. The nuclear-armed mid-range Pershing II missiles, whose stationing in Western Europe five years earlier had triggered the largest peace demonstrations to that point in history, were withdrawn.
The danger now is "that the US will construct new missiles and station them in Europe,” warned the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A major shift would be set “into motion” and Europe would stand “on the brink of a new nuclear era … nuclear mid-range missiles were the horror of the Cold War … thirty years on, the spectre has returned."
You can read the rest @
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/02/nato-s02.html
In a former life during the first Cold War, I was in the US Army and stationed at AFCENT in Brunssum, The Netherlands. One day we got a warning signal over the radio suggesting that INF missiles were about to be launched. Knowing that such a launch meant we'd all be dead in 10-15 minutes was NOT a good feeling.
Note well that candidate Trump said he wanted to AVOID such a thing; but now President Trump is being steered into direct confrontation with Russia and China.
We The People need new leadership, and it MUST be leadership which is NOT based upon global military supremacy or financial totalitarianism.
No more Trumps, no more Obamas, no more Hillarys.
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