re: #264 Obdicut

We also reserve the right to withdraw from a pact. There’s no sort of pact that a country could sign that would somehow prevent them from withdrawing from it. The GOP was not trying to get concessions from the Russians to prevent ‘this very thing’— there’s no way of preventing a country from withdrawing from a pact at the instant they choose to.

The point is the actual draw-down in warheads and delivery systems. They could withdraw from it at any time— that doesn’t mean they can magically make those warheads and delivery systems reappear.

and the Russians can toss it away whenver they feel threatened…

The amendments stipulate that Russia could withdraw if military deployments or even plans by the United States or NATO jeopardize its security.
They highlight lingering rifts over U.S. plans for a European anti-missile shield and Russian concerns over other weapons it fears the United States or NATO could deploy.

my point was and is that you cannot trust the Russians, and the treaty has less to do with numbers of warheads, than it does with strong arming the US over anti-missile defense….basically it’s worthless