Dangerous Escalation? Why Russia Abruptly Quit 1987 Nuclear Pact With U.S. After Trump’s Submarine Threat | World News
Moscow/New Delhi: Russia once officially moved away from the standing as the cornerstone of global arms control. On Monday, August 4, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the country did not think itself by the intermediate -range Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement, which is now an agreement signed in 1987. The decision was referred to in response to what Moscow defines as the increasing danger of Western military actions.
The Ministry said the conditions that once “not exist anymore ğı within the scope of the INF Treaty, which made the conditions that justify the imposed restrictions. Now he sees these limits as outdated.
“The Russian Foreign Ministry was authorized to state that the conditions for the maintenance of unilateral moratorium in the deployment of similar weapons have disappeared and that Russia is no longer connected to itself with the previously adopted restrictions,” he said.
This last move follows the deployment of American missile systems, including Typhon Launcher in the Philippines and military exercises in Australia. Russian officials said it is critical in shaping the decisions of these deployments.
The Inf Treaty was signed by the Union of Socialist Republics (USSR) to eliminate the ballistic and cruise missiles initiated from the ground in the range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. The United States withdrew from the agreement in 2019, claiming Russian violations. Moscow rejected these allegations and opposed that Washington began to develop banned weapons under an agreement. President Vladimir Putin warned that the collapse of the agreement would damage global stability.
The atmosphere between Moscow and Washington is tense. Last week, US President Donald Trump said he ordered two nuclear submarines to be deployed in “appropriate regions .. He claimed that the movement was an answer to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s “extremely provocative interpretations”.
Trump did not clarify the type of submarine or its position.
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, as reported by AFP, “Russia is very careful of the foreseen nuclear nuclear weapons. And we believe that everyone should be very careful with nuclear rhetoric.”
Trump has intensified after publishing an ultimatum that demanded Russia to finish the war in Ukraine or to face sweep sanctions.
Former Russian President and Putin Sadık Medvedev said, “Every new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with its own country.”
In an interview with Newsmax, Trump replied, ız We must be prepared when you talk about nuclear… And we are completely ready ”.
In the midst of increasing tensions, Trump’s ambassador Steve Witkoff is expected to come to Moscow this week. His visit is coming to respond to Russia’s refusal to raise only days before the US President’s deadline. Moscow now officially throws the last remains of the Fraft Inf frame, while the diplomacy window seems to shrink even more.
