Russia deploys missile in apparent treaty violation

a reply to: Vector99

No, a regular citizen maybe, but not a DC insider.

a reply to: kosmicjack

Then wouldn't that absolutely destroy the credibility of the NSA and FBI?

a reply to: Vector99

They have credibility left?

a reply to: kosmicjack

I guess that depends on your political leaning and the situation at hand, or at least it sure seems that way.

There's no treaty violation yet, but NATO is really pushing hard to get the INF treaty broken.

... Even if there were discussions on renewal / adaptations to the New Start treaty, it would leave Chinese nuclear forces out of it. Therefore it could be also that there's not going to be a renewal, of the new Start treaty unless China becomes part of it ...

Regarding the INF, it is de facto dead due to ABM Aegis system that is present in Europe.

It's time to deliver 9M729s to Syria on massive numbers to be deployed at the border with israel.
It's also very advantageous for Russian arms exports, to deliver a few thousand of them to Syria ... maybe to others as well. It seems the delegations were very happy to see this new type of weapon yesterday at the Defense ministry's presentation.

P.S. : no the rumors that the EU is spreading are not true. There's not going to be any increase in Bread prices in Russia any time soon. Although, gas prices in Europe can increase significantly, in the event that North Stream 2 is cancelled ...
In general Brussels' style of "dynamically changing regulations" lead to cancellation of this type of strategic international infrastructure ...