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Romney's Hit Piece on START: 'Thoroughly Ignorant'

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Spare O'Lake7/07/2010 12:10:57 pm PDT
The treaty does let Russia get by without cutting any of its strategic “delivery vehicles” (missiles and bombers). Each side is limited to 700, but Russia right now has only 600; the United States has 850, so it will have to cut back a little.
- Slate

A cutback by the US from 850 to 600 delivery vehicles is just under 30%, which is hardly “a little”.
An increase by Russia from 600 to 700 is just under 17% which is very substantial.
In fact this represents a massive swing in the balance of delivery vehicles in Russia’s favour, to the tune of 46%+.