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Russia uses missile in Ukraine that led Trump to quit nuclear treaty, Kyiv says
(www.straitstimes.com)
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Let’s not forget these systems were deployed as a (deliberately escalatory) response to GWB withdrawing from the ABM treaty and placing interceptor batteries on shore in Eastern Europe.
Interceptor batteries are hard to distinguish from IRBMs without inspecting the canister contents because they follow similar trajectories to the missiles they need to intercept and have therefore similar physical characteristics.
This is not to excuse the Russians (fuck those guys) but to point out that this is the result of a strategic calculus that EVERYONE in the field warned the Bush administration about for literally years in the 2001–2008 timeframe.
To be clear: by everyone I mean everyone. The arms control people were like “don’t do this, it will suck for everyone”, and the military types were like “start building IRBMs now so when the russkis start escalating we’ll have more”, but EVERYONE saw it coming.