Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends

Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by dragonwriter on Saturday March 05, 2022 @04:36PM (#30572146)

> Recall that Russia exited nuclear arms treaties and controls

The US repudiated the ABM treaty before Russia did any of that (Russian withdrawal from START II was a direct response to that), and also exited the Open Skies Treaty first. There are many, many things to blame Russia for, but collapsing the arms control and verification regime that developed during the Cold War was entirely the US (and specifically an active partisan project of the GOP.)

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by ericmay on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:54PM (#30573800)

Yep.

> On December 13, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush, who argued that Washington and Moscow no longer needed to base their relationship on their ability to destroy each other, announced that the United States would withdraw from the ABM Treaty, claiming that it prevented U.S. development of defenses against possible terrorist or "rogue-state" ballistic missile attacks. [1]

[1] https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/abmtreaty

Without getting into the entire history of tit-for-tat let’s not pretend that withdrawing from this treaty was the result of some wonton aggression toward little ole’ Russia.

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