Wed12Dec - European CFE Peace Treaty Null and Void

[TonyGosling]

By "exceptional circumstances" does Vladimir Putin mean 9/11 was an inside job?

Russia suspends arms control pact

http://www.cdi.org/dm/2000/issue10/cfe1.jpg
http://www.cdi.org/program/issue/document.cfm?DocumentID=1669&ProgramI D=75&issueID=148

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
Mr Putin signed a decree citing "exceptional circumstances" affecting security as the reason for the move.
Russia has been angered by US plans to base parts of a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The US said it was "disappointed" by Russia's decision but would "continue to have discussions with them in the coming months" on how to proceed.
The 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) limits the number of heavy weapons deployed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Urals mountains.
The Russian suspension will become effective 150 days after other parties to the treaty have been notified, President Putin's decree says.................................................................. ............
......................................................But this revised treaty has never been ratified by the Nato countries who want Russia to withdraw all of its forces from two breakaway regions with Russian-speaking majorities - Abkhazia in Georgia and Trans-Dniester in Moldova.

"The CFE treaty and missile defence are the two major irritants between Russia and the West. It would have been easy, it still is easy, I think Nato allies feel, to move closer to ratifying the CFE treaty," the Nato spokesman added.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/6898690.stm

Published: 2007/07/14 20:47:28 GMT

[Mark Gobell]

[TonyGosling]

I think he does mean that.

Cheyne and Co. have pushed the world to the brink again through one of the most audacious, or cruel, crimes in history.

And people like George Monbiot, it seems, are providing a global intellectual diversion, or in intelligence parlance, cover story.

I bet Kissinger, David Rubenstein, Lloyd Blankfein, patted each other on the back 'nuff times in the months and years immediately afterwards but their chickens are coming home to roost now.

Yes, 9/11 is such a monstrous crime that it will almost inevitably push the world into war as the world rallies to defend itsself from such a deeply disgusting group of plutocrats.

The irony is that war is what they always wanted as part of an authoritarian and depopulation agenda. So is Putin just playing into their hands? Or is he playing safe, covering all bases?

[TonyGosling]

More on this CFE treaty story
http://news.google.co.uk/news?ncl=1124302447

U.S. missile shield plans threaten Russia-NATO cooperation - Lavrov
21:32 | 07/ 12/ 2007

BRUSSELS, December 7 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Central Europe threaten Russia-NATO cooperation in missile defense, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.

The U.S. plans deploy a radar in the Czech Republic and a missile defense base in Poland. Russia has said the move would threaten its national security.

Lavrov also said Russia expects to continue consultations on the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty and is convinced that a viable arms control system will be established in Europe.

The foreign ministers of the 26 NATO member states said in a joint statement on Friday that they were concerned with Russia's moratorium on the CFE.

Russia's law suspending its participation in the CFE treaty officially came into force on December 3. The moratorium itself will take effect at the stroke of midnight on December 12- 13.

Moscow considers the original CFE treaty, signed in December 1990 by 16 NATO countries and six Warsaw Pact members, to be discriminatory and outdated since it does not reflect the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the breakup of the Soviet Union, or recent NATO expansion.......
http://en.rian.ru/world/20071207/91430795.html