Russia and the United States show little interest, to save the INF agreement. However, the struggles, the Federal government of its receipt. In the event of a failure of a new rearmament debate threatens.
Explosion, a ball of fire and then applause and hugs. With the demolition of the last Soviet SS-20, the disarmament of nuclear medium-range missiles between East and West was completed at the 12.5.1991 successfully. The nuclear arms race seemed to equip seemed to be forever history.
However, when US President Donald Trump should announce in the coming week the withdrawal from the INF Treaty would also be the ghosts of the past back to life. Moscow was a violation of the agreement for years, says the NATO. Not true, replies the Russian side, and accuses the West, to seek only a pretext, the agreement will self-terminate.
“Europeans are just a lost second or third priority,”
foreign Minister Heiko Maas has in a short visit in Moscow and Washington, especially a felt, Both sides have the interest of the historic agreement a long time ago. Jan Techau from the German Marshall Fund of the is no wonder. The view is set long ago to China that have upgraded in the past years, powerful: “The INF Treaty interferes. For Europeans, this is so difficult, because you are only a second or third priority.”
