Russia said on Saturday it was fully committed to a Cold War-era pact with the United States banning intermediate-range cruise missiles, a day after Washington accused Moscow of violating the treaty.
The U.S. State Department said on Friday Washington was reviewing military options, including new intermediate-range cruise missile systems, in response to what it said was Russia's ongoing violation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Russia is committed to the treaty if you mean Russia wants to keep their new intermediate range nuclear missiles while America does not build them in compliance with the treaty.
If they are technically legal as Russia claims, we can do the same. And if Russia is simply cheating while denying, the treaty will be dead. We will build such weapons, no doubt.
China will be really happy to have America do that given that we have ways of basing such weapons close to China.
So China won't be happy with Russia, I think.
