Jason Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Uh, apparently this happened on November 22 and we somehow never posted about it? US formally withdraws from Open Skies Treaty that bolstered European security WWW.CNN.COM The US on Sunday formally exited the decades-old Open Skies Treaty, some six months after President Donald Trump first announced the decision, according to the State Department. Trump’s Dismantling of the ‘Open Skies’ Surveillance Program Is a Priceless Gift to Russia – InsideSources WWW.INSIDESOURCES.COM If Vladimir Putin had only two wishes left for his Russian operative in the White House before the end of his term, the first would be to further erode Quote Not only has [Trump] ordered that the highly sophisticated OC-135B Open Skies aircraft flown by U.S. Air Force and allied crews are grounded, but he has also ordered that the planes be dismantled so they are no longer serviceable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Just fucking idiotic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, CayceG said: Just fucking idiotic. Not if Putin is holding the kompromat over your head now that you've lost the election. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 If we’re lucky, they will just drag their feet on dismantling them so Biden can reverse this quickly. -edit- Scrap that line of thinking. See Jason's post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 Just now, chakoo said: If we’re lucky, they will just drag their feet on dismantling them so Biden can reverse this quickly. Keeping the planes in one piece doesn't change the fact that Trump just ended our right to fly them over Russian airspace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, Jason said: Keeping the planes in one piece doesn't change the fact that Trump just ended our right to fly them over Russian airspace. Ah fuck. I thought the deal was with the EU not Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Not that this would ever come close to ending the empire, but moves like this are what would happen should we ever decide to actually rein in our overseas adventurism. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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