Christopher Ford and the destruction of the INF treaty
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12bytes: For those curious about Russia's new Oreshnik hyper-sonic missile for which the U.S./NATO has no reliable defense, see: Now I am scared: the New Oreshnik Missile Attack on Dnipro.
Christopher Ford doesn't know the first thing about war, or the consequences of war, and as such has an academics perspective of what constitutes "strength."
He also lacks any familiarity whatsoever with the reality of either the Soviet Union or Russia, and as such operates under some misguided superiority complex when it comes to weighing the national security interests of both the US and Russia. His slanted world view treats nuclear weapons like game pieces on a chess board set up in some classroom in Harvard or Oxford (yes, Doctor Ford attended both, as well as Columbia), where the consequence of failure is measured by how long it takes you to reset the board and begin again.
Normally I would not give people like Christopher Ford a passing thought; he is ignorant, elitist, and responsible for the demise of a treaty that helped define my life and, in doing so, saved the world from nuclear annihilation. This is the one reality that Christopher Ford, despite his many degrees and academic accomplishments, seems to have not grasped-the INF treaty didn't simply create a temporary balance in the deterrence postures of the US and the Soviet Union (and later, Russia).
It saved the world from the certainty of nuclear annihilation.
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