Russia recently built a banned cruise missile--in violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Then, Vladimir Putin announced his intent to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea. Deployment to Crimea will place Russian tactical nuclear weapons on soil it just seized within 300 miles of Istanbul and Ankara. But the U.S. Administration doesn't seem concerned. In fact, the US appears to be dismantling its NATO nuclear deterrent in Europe and outsourcing NATO policy to Germany. Is this, Russia's nuclear saber-rattling in Crimea and support of wannabe nuclear Iran, just a regional threat or the stuff of a NATO split? Will our NATO ally, Turkey, finally join the U.S. fight against ISIS? Vladimir Putin just met with Turkey's Erdogan: a pipeline that would have conveyed its gas to Europe will be rerouted to Turkey; trade (ie. the services necessary to construct a nuclear power plant in Turkey) between Moscow and Turkey is growing while the rest of NATO sanctions Russia.
Will the 1940s be calling to ask for their foreign policy back? Will the 1910s? Will the 1860s?
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