Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/19/pentagon-tests-cruise-missile.html
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This Cold War nostalgia is really getting out of hand…
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This is the kind of Gen X nostalgia I don’t need.
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“A tomahawk variant” - right, the one in which they program it to go more than 500km. This isn’t a new missile and I strongly suspect the INF was already being violated prior to this test.
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Paging Doctor Lehrer, Doctorr Lehrer.
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So the USA cancelled the INF treaty because they accused the Russians of developing/deploying a 500+km missile … all the while developing some themselves.
quelle surprise
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I keep forgetting, are the Russian good guys or bad guys this week? Ditto with China and Upper Korea.
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This treaty was an amazing deal for the US and NATO.
No, really
We gave up something we didn’t need and the Soviet Union gave up something they could really use.
Putin has been wanting out of this treaty since he came to power, and ⊥rump has now delivered.
I wonder if he swallowed 
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Eh. The INF only covered ground-launched cruise missiles. When the INF was signed, the Tomahawk ground launchers were scrapped as the missile could exceed 500 km even back then.
All they’d have to do is build a new ground-based launcher to achieve this. The missiles themselves wouldn’t require much in the way of changes and as long as there were no ground-launch systems, it wasn’t in violation.
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Da, but I think the salient point here it that the US isn’t even pretending to be the Good Guy™ any more.
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Ooh, I’ve got an old post for this:
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Huh. 500km actually sounds pretty short-range to me.
For cruise missiles. ICBMs do the heavy lifting.
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In my book progress is measured by making things safer. Violation and dismissal of a treaty that bans medium range nuked is bad.
I am proud of Russians and US citizens when we work together to rid the world of life snuffing nukes, not when we dismantle past progress then drive the point home with tests.
What a shame.
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I’m sure the US proposed, bid, designed, planned, and built a missile that violated the INF treaty all in the span of a few months because that’s how efficient the Government is.
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this decade is ending rather terrifying
climate change research/laws undone, endangered species protections undone, regulations on nasty industries undone, nuclear agreements undone
and people in general don’t seem to care as long as they can still browse the internet and shop at the mall
what really worries me in this day an age is that some general is going to want weapons connected through the internet for monitoring, you just know it’s happening somewhere beause drone feeds were un-encrypted for years through the iraq war, may still not be
Trying to decide whether you misspelled Ted “Cruz” or “missile.” Could go either way, or both.
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