Dilandu wrote:gcomeau wrote:
The point of nuclear disarmament efforts is to get nuclear countries ON BOARD with these freaking treaties, not scrap them yourself because you ca
Sigh. The point of bilateral treaties was to fixate the existing situation between two superpowers, NOT letting the third one (which was not a superpower back than) obtain a crucial military advantage.
You seems to be unable to think in military therms for a bit. Chinese advantage in short- and medium-range missiles undermined both US and Russia security. In case of conflict, China would have an enormous advantage of being able to devastate US & US allies defense infrastructure all around Far East without suffering the same in retaliation.
Is that too hard to understood?
Well said.
The IRBM treaty was a reasonable step to deescalate tensions between the US and USSR but it did not restrict China, India, North Korea or other countries. Russia is particularly vulnerable to Chinese missiles that can attack Russia's strategic missiles with extremely short flight times. Russia had to respond, either by reintroducing IRBMs or perhaps by renegotiating the treaty to include other powers. The US is in a similar situation.
I do not know if Russia or the US attempted such negotiations before abrogating the treaty. There is time for such negotiations to occur.