{"id":83655,"date":"2024-06-28T23:29:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T23:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/28\/putin-vows-to-make-new-nuclear-missiles-and-to-weigh-placing-them-near-nato-nations\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T23:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T23:29:16","slug":"putin-vows-to-make-new-nuclear-missiles-and-to-weigh-placing-them-near-nato-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/28\/putin-vows-to-make-new-nuclear-missiles-and-to-weigh-placing-them-near-nato-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Vows to Make New Nuclear Missiles and to Weigh Placing Them Near NATO Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/28\/multimedia\/28russia-missile-01-kljp\/28russia-missile-01-kljp-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Putin Vows to Make New Nuclear Missiles and to Weigh Placing Them Near NATO Nations\" title=\"Putin Vows to Make New Nuclear Missiles and to Weigh Placing Them Near NATO Nations\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Vladimir V. Putin declared on Friday that Russia would produce new intermediate-range nuclear-capable missiles and then decide whether to deploy them within range of NATO nations in Europe and American allies in Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin\u2019s threat was vaguely worded: He said nothing about timetables for deploying the weapons, and by blaming the United States for bringing similar missiles into training exercises in Europe and Asia, he seemed to be signaling he was open to negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But his timing was critical, because he made the announcement just as major elections were about to begin in Britain and France, and days ahead of the 75th anniversary NATO summit in Washington that starts on July 9. And it appeared to be Mr. Putin\u2019s latest attempt to raise the stakes in his conflict with the West, coming less than two weeks after his visit to North Korea <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/19\/us\/politics\/putin-kim-russia-nuclear.html\" title=\"\">rattled nerves in the United States<\/a> and those of American allies in Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-inf-nuclear-treaty.html\" title=\"\">pulled out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-inf-nuclear-treaty.html\" title=\"\">Treaty<\/a> in 2019, during the Trump administration, after years of American accusations that Russia was cheating on the accord. The treaty had banned U.S. and Russian forces from having land-based cruise or ballistic missiles with ranges between about 300 and 3,400 miles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was one in a series of treaty withdrawals that marked the end of more than a half-century of traditional nuclear arms control, in which the key agreements were negotiated in Washington and Moscow. Only one such treaty is left: New START, which limits the intercontinental weapons each nation can hold. It expires in February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin could have announced plans to bolster his force of intermediate weapons at any point in the past five years, so his decision to do it now was notable. In the interim, the Pentagon has moved to deploy some modified weapons in Asia, ultimately intended to counter a growing Chinese nuclear force. But the United States has not permanently redeployed any in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In brief, televised remarks in a videoconference with his national security officials on Friday, Mr. Putin referred to some recent military exercises in Denmark and suggested that it was possible the United States was preparing to leave weapons there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe need to respond to this and decide on our further steps in this regard,\u201d Mr. Putin said. \u201cIt appears that we need to begin producing these attack systems and then, based on the actual situation, decide on where to deploy them to ensure our security, if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But his motivation may simply be a reaction to recent American moves in Ukraine. When <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/30\/us\/politics\/biden-ukraine-russia-weapons.html\" title=\"\">President Biden lifted his prohibition<\/a> on Ukraine\u2019s ability to fire American-supplied weapons into Russian territory \u2014 though he limited it to the area around Kharkiv, where Russia is firing weapons \u2014 Mr. Putin made clear there would be a response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the Cold War, such missiles were a key part of the Soviet force. But in the early 1990s, the United States removed from Europe all of its intermediate range ground-based nuclear cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, and the Soviets eliminated their SS-20 missiles. These moves were considered major steps in reducing tensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But a decade ago, Mr. Putin reversed Russia\u2019s move, deploying Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, the Russian region closest to Western European cities, which the Obama administration charged were in violation of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty. But President Barack Obama decided not to withdraw from the treaty, reasoning that would lift any obligations from Mr. Putin. President Donald J. Trump reversed that decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Pentagon has used the withdrawal to plan for the deployment of weapons in the Pacific that would have been previously banned under the treaty. But when military exercises are held, they almost always involve mock-ups, not real nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The threat to produce more nuclear-capable missiles was also just the latest example of how Mr. Putin has tried to gain leverage in his war against Ukraine by invoking the power and reach of his nuclear arsenal. At the beginning of the invasion, he ordered weapons be put on a higher state of readiness \u2014 they apparently never were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In October 2022, the Biden administration intercepted messages suggesting that Russian generals were planning to detonate a battlefield nuclear weapon in Ukraine, possibly at a military base. That crisis eased without any nuclear use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/28\/world\/europe\/russia-nuclear-missiles-nato.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir V. Putin declared on Friday that Russia would produce new intermediate-range nuclear-capable missiles and then decide whether to deploy them within range of NATO nations in Europe and American allies in Asia. Mr. Putin\u2019s threat was vaguely worded: He said nothing about timetables for deploying the weapons, and by blaming the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/28\/multimedia\/28russia-missile-01-kljp\/28russia-missile-01-kljp-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13905,2376,7410,3101,33817,209,3961,30581],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83657,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83655\/revisions\/83657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}