Summary
A particular irritant to Putin, parallel to the arguments about conventional forces in Europe, is the US proposal - a pet project of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld - to deploy ten ground-based interceptor missiles in Poland and a 360 degree X-band radar in the Czech Republic.
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Missile Madness
during the cold war years we learned that successful arms control agreements with the Soviet Union were those that established parity, or at least a mutually acceptable status quo.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Treaty Organisation in 1991, a much diminished Russia saw all its one-time military allies, and three former Soviet republics, join NATO, making parity harder to achieve.During the 1990s, under President Boris Yeltsin, Russia pushed for equality to the United States in arms control diplomacy and in negotiations over the future of the former Yugoslavia...See the full content of this document
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