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[Rods2]

But.... is it not in both Russia and the USA to have a disruption to a nuclear pact.?

They both get to spend big and look good, Then they look even better when in a few months/ years get together and magically agree a new deal.

Where’s Rods2?

INF treaty for a ban on short to medium range nukes was agreed & signed in 1987 to make Europe safer due to the short decision times from a launch to retaliation, so it makes it a more dangerous place in theory, but in reality it makes no difference where Putin's missiles have broken the treaty with their land based systems that cover all of Western Europe.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/ssc-8.htm

IMO what is now of a much greater concern is where the EU duplicated & have probably fatally undermined NATO & IMO it makes more sense for a new Atlantic-Pacific pact between USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea & Taiwan where the two major threats to Western interests are now China & Russia. Germany has just refused to join the EU task force to protect commercial shipping in The Strait of Hormuz, the final PM May SNFU before she left office was turning down immediate USN help in favour of the non-existent/unreliable* EU one for protecting UK interests. *delete as appropriate.

We can then let the EU Army play at being chocolate soldiers & poke the Russian Bear with their EU Empire Eastern expansion as often as they feel they must. What can possibly go wrong as I'm sure the cheese eating surrender nation France as their only nuclear power would credibly threaten Moscow & be prepared to sacrifice Paris to save Berlin.

I think the NATO countries that spend 2% or more of defence have had enough of the back sliding EU countries especially Germany who continue to cut their defence budget after promising to increase it where they want NATO Article 5 security on the cheap. Weak defences invite trouble & Putin has stated on several occasions, that countries that can't be bothered to defend themselves, shouldn't survive as countries. Germany relying on the Baltic-Polish-Ukrainian buffer to protect them on the cheap will probably not be enough when the two EU-Russian empires geopolitically collide. Personally I think the UK, our former Empire & the US made enough sacrifices in the 20th century sorting out Europe with no thanks whatsoever, so if they want to create more as One-Euro Plastic Napoleons in Berlin, Brussels & Paris then let them, while we sit it out.