"It was Billarybama--all three of them in lock step with the military industrial media complex. "
What does "Billarybama" mean - Bill & Hillary Clinton and Obama? If so, then it is decidedly misleading. The US unilaterally withdrew from the 1972 ABM Treaty under Gerge W Bush: <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/international/bush-pulls-out-of-abm-treaty-putin-calls-move-a-mistake.html>. When Obama assumed the US presidency, he did push the reset button for US-Russia relationship. It did significantly improve. As a consequence, at his initiative, the New START was struck further bringing down the number of nuclear warheads held by the two countries. Quote The US president, Barack Obama, and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian leader, today signed an arms treaty that will slash their respective nuclear arsenals by a third. The two men shook hands to applause after signing what Obama called a historic agreement in the opulent setting of Prague castle in the Czech Republic. Obama said the new agreement made the US and the world more secure and helped stopped the drift in US-Russia relations. "Together we've stopped that drift," Obama said, adding that the agreement was a "milestone for US-Russia relations". Unquote (Source: <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/barack-obama-nuclear-treaty-russia>.) Significantly, Russian President was Dmitry Medvedev. (Never mind he was generally considered a mere proxy for Putin.) However, in the process Obama had to enter into a deal with the Devil. In order to make the Senate approve the treaty Obama conceded to agree to the "modernisation" programme of US nuclear stockpile. Quote Later in 2009, all 40 Republican senators at the time, along with independent senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), tied U.S. nuclear weapon modernization to the ratification of a new U.S.-Russian arms control agreement in a December 15 letter to Obama. The senators wrote that the further reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal would be acceptable only if accompanied by "a significant program to modernize our nuclear deterrent." Unquote (Source: <http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/nuclear-stockpile-modernization/>.) As regards BMD, in Europe, it was the initiative of George W Bush. Obama had halted it. Quote Barack Obama has abandoned the controversial Pentagon plan to build a missile defence system in Europe that had long soured relations with Russia. ... He phoned the leaders of Poland and the Czech Republic last night to tell them he had dropped plans to site missile interceptors and a radar station in their respective countries. Russia had furiously opposed the project, claiming it targeted Moscow's nuclear arsenal. Unquote (Source: <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/17/missile-defence-shield-barack-obama>.) Things changed subsequently - and changed for the worse, if my memory serves me correct, with Putin again assuming Russian presidency. I was really surprised that YYY simply nodded his head in agreement. In any case, the actual factual position has been laid out above. Sukla I've been arguing this all along. YYY The Washington Post is cooking up war against Russia [see: <https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/03/09/is-trump-giving-putin-a-pass-on-a-missile-deployment/?utm_term=.dfd77967b0c5>]! As terrible and evil as Trump is , this is the one positive thing we might get out of him but the military industrial media complex won't let it happen. Why aren't they talking about our violations by walking out of the ABM treaty, putting missiles in Romania and soon in Poland, expanding NATO, military maneuvers on Russia's borders? Or how we repeatedly blocked Russia and China's proposals to negotiate a space weapons ban in 2008 and again in 2015. And how we blew them off about discussing a cyberwar ban treaty? This wasn't Trump doing it. It was Billarybama--all three of them in lock step with the military industrial media complex. XXX -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
