No. Obviously Russia does not benefit
from the scrapping of yet another treaty designed to prevent a nuclear
exchange amid a war with the United States.
Yet, as an attempt to frame blatant US
provocations as somehow “Russia’s fault,” a narrative has begun
circulating – claiming that not only does the US withdrawal from
the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty somehow benefit
Russia – it was via Russia’s “puppet” – US President Donald Trump – that
saw the treaty scrapped.
Spreading this scurrilous narrative are
political provocateurs like former US ambassador to Russia Michael
McFaul who has re-branded himself recently as a prominent anti-Trump
voice – feeding into and feeding off of America’s false left-right
political paradigm.
In one post on social media, McFaul would claim:
Why can’t Trump leverage his close personal relationship with Putin to get Russia to abide by the INF Treaty?
In other posts,
he would recommend followers to read commentary published by US
corporate-financier funded think tank – the Brookings Institution – on
how the US withdrawal “helps Russia and hurts US.”
The commentary –
penned by former US ambassador to Ukraine, Steven Pifer – admitted that
no evidence has been made public of supposed “Russian violations.” It
also admits that America’s European allies – those who would be in range
of Russian intermediate range missiles if deployed – have not raised
a “stink” with the Kremlin, publicly or privately.
But Pifer claims that the US has no
missiles to match those supposedly being developed by Russia, and even
if it did, the US would have no where to place them – claiming that
NATO, Japan, and South Korea would not allow the US to place such
systems on their shores. This, he and McFaul suggest, is why the US’
withdrawal from the treaty “benefits” Russia by granting it a monopoly
over intermediate range missiles.
Washington’s Other Withdrawals Prove Otherwise
Yet the US has already withdrawn from
treaties and twisted the arms of allies to allow newly developed missile
systems to be deployed on their shores.
In the aftermath of Washington’s
unilateral withdrawal from another Cold War-era agreement – the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty scrapped by US President George Bush Jr.
in 2002 – the US developed and deployed the Lockheed Martin ashore Aegis
ballistic missile defense system in Europe along with the deployment of
the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile
defense systems to South Korea – also manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/30/does-us-withdrawal-from-another-nuclear-treaty-really-benefit-russia-2/
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/30/does-us-withdrawal-from-another-nuclear-treaty-really-benefit-russia-2/
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