Russia Deploys Missile, while Putin's useful idiot is still in the WH Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile that American officials say violates a landmark arms control treaty signed during the Reagan administration, posing a major test for President Trump as his administration is facing a crisis over its ties to Moscow. The ground-launched cruise missile is one that the Obama administration said in 2014 had been tested in violation of a 1987 treaty that bans American and Russian intermediate-range missiles based on land. The Obama administration had sought to persuade the Russians to correct the violation while the missile was still in the test phase. Instead, the Russians have moved ahead with the system, this time deploying a fully operational unit. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html?_r=0 in the first month of the Trump presidency, 3 countries have tested nuclear missile. Iran was the first one, Team Trump (via Mike Flynn) immediately put it on notice. since then, NK and Russia have followed suit, but no such public warning from team Trump
Iran tests ballistic missile in defiance of UN resolution, US officials say North Korea calls ballistic missile test-fire a success
Don't be surprised if Vladimir gives Trump a softball victory of some sort to shore up and camouflage the real charade.
The only thing that made me go hmmmm, is why didn't any other country on the treaty speak out about it being a violation? Why was it only the United States? Correct me if I am wrong because that was how it was at the early stages of it. I didn't see anything else. Last I heard it was he said he said between Iran and the United States based on the type of missile.
Sucks for Trump. I don't know what response they expect from him. He doesn't appear to be doing anything.
So Trump has to clean up Obama's mess. Obama couldn't persuade the Russians to do anything he wanted over the course of several years. How long does Trump get to try and persuade? Days, months, years?
It's Putin Russia. Russia has failed at their attempt at democracy and over the years the old Soviet behaviors have been creeping back. This is why Trump team being in bed with them is such a strange nightmare. Has Trump WH even said anything about this yet?
If he can't, he could always crush their economy with sanctions for acting hostile towards the U.S. the way Obama did... Oh that's right Trump's team was already talking about lifting the sanctions before they even took office... my bad.
The Russian government aka Putin can keep on shoving his nation's economy in the dirt with his "We must regain all the ethnic Russian majority states back into Russian control" bullshit. Frighteningly, that is the EXACT same argument Hitler used to invade neighboring countries:"We must bring together all the ethnic Germans under one soverign rule" bullshit.
