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Tended to violate the treaty a russian foreign ministry spokesman said the u.s. move was part of a strategy to daunt its international legal obligations earlier g.w.s. moscow correspondent emily sure when told us more about the kremlin s reaction the foreign ministry actually said that they reserve the right to respond i think this is more likely to be a response to the rhetoric we heard on the u.s. side and just the russian rhetoric as it were russia really doesn t respond well to the language of ultimatums and i think they re making that clear with this harsh response the other thing i think is just basically a testament to how bad relations have gotten we ve heard a lot of anti u.s. rhetoric in the build up to this decision head of the decision today russia was accusing the u.s. of not sticking to its international obligations of not being open for dialogue at all and i think what we ll continue to see in these next six months when the withdrawal the withdrawal period is basically b ....
Concerns and the united states with been in a better position to continue to put pressure diplomatic economic and even military pressure on russia to reach turn to compliance with the treaty while continuing to remain a party to the agreement. kingston raef the director of the arms control association joining us from washington d.c. thanks very much thank you back in the nineteen eighties nuclear missiles were stationed in the communist east by the soviet union and in allied occupied west germany the us that left many here fearful of nuclear war hundreds of thousands of west germans protested against the deployment of nuclear weapons in their country. funded mock travel to the southern city of heilbronn where american medium range missiles were once stationed here in this clearing in southern germany american nuclear missiles were stationed during the one nine hundred eighty s. the only building lift of what used to be the us army vul tied to base this pyrrhic ....
D.w. reporter all our stock has been following the eurovision controversy at least this year s controversy joins me in studio to walk us through it just tell us more first of all about this call for a boycott i mean your vision has always tried to touch it perceived to be nonpolitical but as you said before you know that every year there is there was all the causes yes but as you go you know you remember russia and ukraine if you just back and then just last week during the french national final of the show. we had protesters storming the stage with placards denouncing israel and then finally now this week a letter an open letter was posted on the guardian asking for the british public broadcaster the b.b.c. to boycott the competition for. info you know and to try to move the ....
Will reduce u.s. security in the security of our allies he mentioned other diplomatic options what other options were there on the table what would you have liked to seen the trump administration do. so first of all i think the only way that one could first see resolving the compliance concerns that both the united states and russia have raised about the other s implementation of the treaty is if the two sides acknowledge the concerns of both sides the trumpet ministration has been unwilling to acknowledge some of the concerns that russia has raised particularly pertaining to the deployment of rome in romania and soon in poland of missile defense interceptor launchers that russia believes violate the treaty so i think the united states. needs to if it s serious about saving the treaty needs to acknowledge the russian concerns and for its part the russians need to go further in addressing u.s. ....
Administration s withdrawal from other international agreements the administration has no viable strategy to constrain russia from developing and deploying additional intermediate range missiles in the absence of the treaty and in the absence of the treaty russia will be free to deploy additional missiles without constraints the united states has no military need or rationale to deploy intermediate range missiles in europe it has a significant advantage in treaty compliance air and sea launch missiles that it can bring to bear to counter russia if need be and democrats in congress as well as allies in europe are unlikely to support the deployment of u.s. intermediate range missile systems in europe the trump administration did not exhaust all diplomatic options and it tend to save the treaty and such options i believe were still available so overall i think this is an unwise decision that ....