Zepp-LaRouche: Stop the Chicken-Game, Promote Dialogue And Cooperation with Russia and ChinaPosted on February 4, 2019The Russian government considers that the world strategic situation, in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty, is “all in all, quite alarming.” Those are the words used by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a three-way dialogue with President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, which was prominently featured on the Kremlin’s website on Jan. 2. In that same exchange, Putin announced that Russia would respond “symmetrically” by also quitting the INF and developing its own intermediate-range missiles, as well as other weapons systems. The entire dialogue among the Russian leaders located the current crisis as part of a longer historical arc, beginning with the U.S. pull-out from the ABM treaty in 2002, during the George W. Bush presidency–which is precisely what triggered the Russian policy of developing weapons systems based on new physical principles, which President Putin described in his historic March 1, 2018 speech to the Federal Assembly.READ MORE
