NewsX (India): Russian Official Warns US Golden Dome Space Weapon Escalates Tensions

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I recommend this 10-minute video to the Community, because it focused on the issue of arms control treaties and how the chances of their renewal have been deeply compromised by American participation in the planning for Ukraine’s drone attack a week ago on Russian nuclear triad bombers parked on the tarmac of several air bases.

As I say here, the importance of New SALT and other such agreements is less in the caps they place on offensive strategic weapons systems of the parties to the agreement than in the process of constant expert visits and dialogue stipulated by such treaties which builds trust between the signatories.  Without treaties, without constant consultations, there is zero trust, and consequently there is a high likelihood that erroneous detection of incoming missiles from the enemy side will lead to immediate launch of a counter strike. Such an eventuality is all the more foreseeable given that the time from launch to target has been reduced in recent years from the traditional 30 minutes for ICBMs to just 5 minutes for the short and intermediate range missiles that both sides are now relying heavily upon. That by itself is the strongest possible argument for reinstatement of the respective separate treaty on these missiles, or, what is more important, for holding negotiations to cancel planned deployment of such missiles in Germany by the USA and planned further forward positioning of such missiles to the West by Moscow.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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