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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administration expected to announce exit from 'Open Skies' treaty
Another birthday gift from trump to putin....
Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is expected to soon announce that it plans to exit the "Open Skies" treaty, a US official tells CNN, a move that has already drawn condemnation from Democrats in Congress.
The decision to leave the treaty -- which was signed in 1992 and went into effect in 2002 and allows 34 member states to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over one another's territories -- could affect the American military's ability to conduct aerial surveillance of Russia and other member countries. The treaty is used to help verify arms control agreements, according to the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, part of the Defense Department.
According to the State Department, the treaty "is designed to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all participants, regardless of size, a direct role in gathering information through aerial imaging on military forces and activities of concern to them."
This would be the latest major international treaty the administration has abandoned. In August the US formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, ending a landmark arms control pact that has limited the development of ground-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.
The decision to leave the treaty -- which was signed in 1992 and went into effect in 2002 and allows 34 member states to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over one another's territories -- could affect the American military's ability to conduct aerial surveillance of Russia and other member countries. The treaty is used to help verify arms control agreements, according to the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, part of the Defense Department.
According to the State Department, the treaty "is designed to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all participants, regardless of size, a direct role in gathering information through aerial imaging on military forces and activities of concern to them."
This would be the latest major international treaty the administration has abandoned. In August the US formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, ending a landmark arms control pact that has limited the development of ground-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/politics/trump-open-skies-treaty-exit/index.html
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Trump administration expected to announce exit from 'Open Skies' treaty (Original Post)
spanone
Oct 2019
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C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)1. Why not.
Trump has handed Putin practically everything else... including our democracy. We're so fucked unless these crooks are driven out of office.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)2. Russian flag on top of the WH is next
JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)3. Well, tRump Is Smarter than All The Generals...
He said so himself.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)4. Something I don't understand...
The Senate must pass treaties, according to the Constitution. So how can that know-nothing just unilaterally pull out of a treaty that was passed by 2/3 of the Senate?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)5. Legally I don't think he can . .
But alas, t-rump thinks he is the chosen one.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)6. Mitch's do-nothing Senate lets him roll right over them.